Gerard Fogarty

Officer (AO) in the Military Division, Australia Day Honours, 2013

Major General Gerard Paul Fogarty AM, ACT. For distinguished service as Deputy Commander Joint Task Force 633 in Iraq, Director General Personnel -Army and as Head People Capability.

"Gerard Fogarty is the Head of People Capability, having assumed this appointment in June 2011

Gerard joined the Australian Army at the completion of his secondary schooling in Sydney. His military career has been predominantly in the fields of Command and Leadership, and Human Resource Management.

His early years in the Army were focused on specialist appointments within Aire Defence Artillery and culminated in his appointment in 1999 as the Commanding Officer of the 16th Aire Defence Regiment in Woodside, South Australia.

He has served as Australia's national commander on operations in Timor Leste in 2002 and in the Middle East in 2007. He was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for his distinguished command of the Australian contingent in Timor Leste.

Gerard has also a wide-range of strategic level staff appointmentsin Army and Defence Headquarters.

Gerard is a commissioner on the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission and a Deputy Commissioner on the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission. He is also a Director of Defence Health Limited, a not-for-profit private health insurance company and a founding Director of the Defence Health Foundation, a charitable trust established to fund medical research into issues affecting current and serving members of the Australian Defence Force and their families.

He holds a Bachelor of Business from the University of South Australia, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of New England and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Gerard and his wife Mandy have four children; Sam, Holly, Georgia and Olivia. His interests include transporting his children to their many sporting commitments, cycling and playing the guitar."

 

 

Gerard Fogarty played for Old Colls in the late 80's and early 90's

 

Extract from "Army", April 16th 2009:
ARMY personnel management is about to be revolutionised, with personnel soon having more flexibility and greater control over their careers. The Army People Plan is the centrepiece of plans under development that will be implemented later this year. DGPers-A Brig Gerard Fogarty said while there had been a focus on what force structure we want and how we will achieve it, we haven't had an enabling plan to focus on our people.

From http://www.une.edu.au/gsb/testimonials.php

UNE. The Student Experience:

"Brigadier Gerard Fogarty's story

Brigadier Gerard Fogarty AM, Graduate, Graduate School of Business Brigadier

Gerard Fogarty served in Timor Leste in 2002 as commander of the Australian Contingent and for this was appointed a Member in the Military division of the Order of Australia. In 2008 he served in Iraq as Commander of the Australian Forces in the Middle East.

"With four children under four and trying to learn the complexities of staff work within Army headquarters I had little spare time to devote to study. However, I wanted to complete an MBA and selected UNE because it offered the flexibility to balance my competing work/life processes with a mature and relevant distance education program.

The course developed my critical thinking skills and extended my understanding of organizational behavior and human resource management. The knowledge I gained assisted me greatly as a Commanding Officer and has continued to do so in a range of subsequent staff and command appointments. It has enable me, as a direct result, to add value to strategic policy development within Defence."