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 predominately in the fields of Command and Leadership, and Human Resource Management.

His early years in the Army were focused on specialist appointments within Air Defence Artillery and culminated in his appointment in 1999 as the Commanding Officer of the 16th Air 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 in the Order of Australia for his distinguished command of the Australian contingent in Timor Leste.

Gerard has also held a wide-range of strategic level staff appointments in 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 leisure interests include transporting his children to their many sporting commitments, cycling and playing the guitar.

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