Ms Kylie Kilgour
Acting Commissioner
Ms Kylie Kilgour is Acting Commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commission from 6 July 2026 to 5 October 2026 inclusive.
Prior to her appointment as a Deputy Commissioner of the NACC, Ms Kilgour was a Deputy Commissioner of the Victorian Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission. She was the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants, a Deputy Secretary in the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety, a legal aid policy adviser in the United Kingdom and a community legal centre lawyer in New South Wales.
Ms Kilgour has a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales and was admitted as a legal practitioner in 2001. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Ms Kilgour’s substantive term of appointment as a Deputy Commissioner of the NACC is for five years.
Dr Ben Gauntlett
Deputy Commissioner
Before his appointment as a Deputy Commissioner of the NACC, Dr Gauntlett was the Disability Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. He has previously worked as a barrister in Western Australia and Victoria, as Counsel Assisting the Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth, an associate at the High Court of Australia, as a solicitor in a large commercial law firm and taught law in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Deputy Commissioner Gauntlett holds a Master of Laws from New York University and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Dr Gauntlett’s term of appointment as a Deputy Commissioner of the NACC is five years.
Ms Jamie Lowe
Acting Deputy Commissioner
Before her appointment as an Acting Deputy Commissioner of the NACC, Ms Lowe was the Merit Protection Commissioner for the Australian Public Service and the Parliamentary Service. She was First Assistant Commissioner at the Australian Public Service Commission where she led the Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry Taskforce, established in response to the Robodebt Royal Commission Report.
Acting Deputy Commissioner Lowe has led multidisciplinary teams at the National Disability Insurance Agency and the Attorney-General’s Department to deliver major policy reform and program design for government.
Ms Lowe holds Bachelor of Laws with Honours and Bachelor of Arts degrees.
Ms Penny Shakespeare
Acting Deputy Commissioner
Prior to her appointment as an Acting Deputy Commissioner of the NACC, Ms Shakespeare was Deputy Secretary for Health Resourcing with the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.
Ms Shakespeare has extensive leadership experience in Commonwealth Government health policy and program delivery, including responsibility for Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and integrity functions supporting those programs. She has also led work to support Australia’s health workforce, digital health, genomics, health emergency management and population immunisation.
Before working in health, Acting Deputy Commissioner Shakespeare was an industrial relations lawyer and worked in regulatory policy roles, including as head of the Australian Capital Territory’s Office of Industrial Relations.
Ms Shakespeare has a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Master’s degree in International Law, and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor.
Mr Philip Reed
Chief Executive Officer
Mr Philip Reed brings substantial experience to this role having most recently been the inaugural Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption between July 2018 until April 2023. Mr Reed has previously been the CEO of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and also held senior executive roles in the New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland state governments in a public service career spanning more than 40 years.
Mr Reed’s term of appointment as CEO of the NACC is five years.
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