Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is responsible for our overall performance and reports annually to our joint ministers. (See: Governance)
The DHA Board comprises directors consisting of:

a chair appointed by our shareholder ministers
four directors with expertise in residential property, real estate, building, social planning or finance
three directors nominated respectively by the Chief of the Defence Force, the Secretary of the Department of Defence, and the Secretary of the Department of Finance
the Managing Director of DHA is appointed by the Board and is the only Executive Director.

Dr Robert Lang

Chair
Chair: Appointed November 2024
Acting Chair: Appointed February 2024, reappointed May 2024.
Appointed: October 2023 as a commercial member.

Qualifications
PhD of Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia

Biography
Dr Lang was appointed to the board as a commercial director in October 2023, and as Acting Chair in February and May 2024. He was appointed as the Chair in November 2024 for a three-year term. He has over 35 years’ experience in local and state governments including as the Chief Executive Officer of Parramatta City Council, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and Pacific Power. He is currently the Chair of Olympus Solutions and Ability Options, and sits on the boards of Evolve Housing, and the Sydney Festival. Dr Lang is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney School of Business.

Dr Lang has a longstanding interest in liveable cities, affordable housing, social inclusion and the arts. He holds postgraduate qualifications in Engineering, Information Technology and Business Management, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia. He is an expert on government and stakeholder relations, corporate governance and change management.

Mr Andrew Jaggers PSM

Executive Director
Appointed: February 2025

Qualifications

Bachelor of Economics
Graduate Diploma Environmental Law

Biography

Mr Andrew Jaggers PSM commenced as Managing Director at DHA on February 4, 2025. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Deputy Secretary of Business Enabling Services at the Department of Finance, following a six-year tenure as the Deputy Secretary of the Commercial Group.

Mr. Jaggers has a proven track record in delivering significant property projects and was awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) in 2023 for his work supporting the Australian Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brigadier Leigh Wilton AM

Director
Appointed: December 2019
Reappointed: December 2022

Qualifications
Master of Arts (Strategic Studies)
Master of Management
Bachelor of Business
Graduate Diploma in Information Systems
Graduate of the Australian Command and Staff College (ACSC)
Graduate of the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS)
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course

Biography
Brigadier Wilton was appointed to the Board as the nominee of the Chief of the Defence Force in December 2019. She graduated from the Royal Military College to the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps in 1991. Her early appointments included regimental and staff positions as a supply officer and as a project manager. Her command experience includes a posting as the Officer Commanding Supply Company, 7th Combat Service Support Battalion and the inaugural Commanding Officer/Chief Instructor of the Army School of Ordnance. Brigadier Wilton has held a range of staff appointments at both Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. She has held positions as the Senior Officer Manager within the Career Management Agency, directing staff at both the Australian Command and Staff College and the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, and as the Chief of Staff for Headquarters 633 – Afghanistan and Chief of Staff for Army Headquarters. Brigadier Wilton was appointed as the Director General Personnel – Army in 2016. In this role she also held the appointment as Deputy Head Army People, and was recognised for her work by being awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on the Queen's Birthday 2018. In 2019 Brigadier Wilton was appointed to her current position as the Director General Career Management – Army. In March 2022, Brigadier Wilton transferred to the Australian Army Reserve.

Ms Monique Hamilton PSM

Director
Appointed: August 2023

Qualifications
2021–2022: Oxford Advanced Management Leadership Programme, Said Business School, University of Oxford
2009: Diploma Customer Contract Management, Australian Business Academy

Biography

Ms Hamilton was appointed to the Board as the nominee of the Secretary of Defence in August 2023. She has extensive experience in service delivery across government with the Health Insurance Commission, Services Australia and the Department of Defence. Ms Hamilton is the First Assistant Secretary, Group Operations where she is responsible for oversight of the Defence Digital Group’s (DDG) central functions and driving the consistency and efficiency of the DDG business to ensure a focus on core ICT capabilities. Her prior role was as the First Assistant Secretary, Service Delivery where she managed the large-scale delivery of corporate and essential on-the-ground services to sustain the Defence estate and support personnel across Australia.
On 10 June 2024 Ms Hamilton's achievements were recognised in The King's Birthday 2024 Honours List (Meritorious Awards). She was awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) for her outstanding public service in delivering significant and enduring reform in project and contract management.

Ms Andrea Galloway

Director
Appointed: November 2016
Reappointed: November 2019, November 2022 (3-month ext.), February 2023

Qualifications
Bachelor of Business Administration
Graduate of the Executive Program (University of Michigan)
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Justice of the Peace
Certified Chair

Biography

Ms Galloway was appointed to the Board as a commercial director in November 2016 and reappointed in November 2019, November 2022 (3-month ext), February 2023. She has over 30 years of executive management experience for national and multinational commercial organisations, including leading Spherion, Lucent Technologies and AT&T in the Asia Pacific and South Pacific. She was Managing Director of Evolve Housing, one of Australia’s largest community housing providers, from 2011–2019. Most recently she was the CEO of Coleman Greig Lawyers. In 2014, she was awarded the Australian Telstra Business Woman of the Year and the NSW Telstra Business Woman of the Year for Innovation.

Ms Gai Brodtmann

Director
Appointed: February 2021
Reappointed: February 2024

Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Politics, Sociology and English)
Bachelor of Arts (Public Relations)
Graduate Certificate in Business
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course
Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Australia
Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association

Biography

Ms Brodtmann was appointed to the board as a commercial director in February 2021 and reappointed in February 2024. She is a board member of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, chair of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, co-founder and chair of Fearless Women and a distinguished advisor at the National Security College. Ms Brodtmann is also a regular presenter and panellist on national security, public policy and women’s leadership.

Elected as the Member for Canberra from 2010⁠–⁠2019, Ms Brodtmann served as Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence from 2013⁠–⁠2016 and Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security and Defence from 2016⁠–⁠2019. She also served on various committees, including the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit.

Prior to her political career, Ms Brodtmann was a small business owner from 2000⁠–⁠2010 and non-executive director, and a federal public servant, mostly with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Attorney-General's Department from 1990-2000.