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Deborah Glass, (born 1959) is an Australian lawyer and administrator, who has been the current Victorian Ombudsman since March 2014. From 2008 to 2014, Glass was the deputy chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in the United Kingdom. She was also one of the IPCC's ten operational Commissioners, in which capacity she had joint regional responsibility for London and the South-East.
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Glass spent her formative years in Australia. She is a lawyer by profession.
Early years
Glass attended Mount Scopus College then Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where she studied law, obtaining her BA in 1980 and LLB two years later.
Career
Glass started her professional career as a lawyer based in Melbourne, before relocating to Switzerland to work for Citicorp, a US Investment Bank. She then transferred into the financial regulation sector, pursuing a career with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
Returning to Europe, in 1998 she was appointed Chief Executive of the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation, which under her stewardship was successfully subsumed into the London-based Financial Services Authority. She also worked as an Independent custody visitor between 1999 and 2005.
Between 2001 and 2004 she was a member of the Police Complaints Authority, and it was from here that she was appointed to the IPCC.
At the IPCC she was responsible, among other things, for many high-profile criminal and misconduct investigations and decisions involving the police. These included decisions in relation to the police response to the phone-hacking affair, the death of Ian Tomlinson during the London G20 protests in 2009, the decision to launch an independent investigation into the aftermath of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, and the "Plebgate" affair.
She left the IPCC in March 2014, having completed a ten-year term with the organisation, which then published her personal critique of the police complaints system in England and Wales.