Robert Fitzgerald AM served as a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for 5 years and recently commenced as Age Discrimination Commissioner in April 2024. 

Mr Fitzgerald is a highly respected lawyer, human rights and social justice advocate, and a leading figure in the anti-discrimination space. He has extensive experience in promoting  child  and adult safeguarding responses to abuse. 

He has been the NSW Ageing and Disability Commissioner since 2019 and was previously an Australian Productivity Commissioner, NSW Community and Disability Services Commissioner, and Deputy Ombudsman. 

He was the inaugural Chair of the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission Advisory Board. He has served on NGO boards for over 40 years. And is a member of the Nominations Committee of the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse.