Alison Creagh

Brigadier Alison Margaret Creagh, (born 1962) is a retired Australian Army officer. After seeing active service with the Australian Army in Cambodia, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan, she was involved in the creation of the Australian Peacekeeping Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra. She was president of the Paralympics Australia from September 2023 to June 2025.

Early life Alison Margaret Creagh was born in 1962. She moved to Canberra a few years later after when her father became a member of the academic staff at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. She was educated at Canberra Girls Grammar School and the Australian National University. She served in Cambodia in 1993 as the quartermaster of the Force Communications Unit with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), for which she was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross. She was the Director-General of Public Affairs in 2010, the Director-General, Strategic Communication, from 2011 to 2013, and the Director-General, Australian Defence Force Theatre Project, from 2013 to 2014.

Post-military career Creagh became a non-executive director and chair of the board of governors of The Road Home, Veterans' organisation, in 2014. She was a council member of the Australian War Memorial from 2015 to 2018, and the executive director of the Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience in 2015. She was vice-chair of the Australian Peacekeeping Memorial Project from 2016 to 2019, which resulted in the creation of the Australian Peacekeeping Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra, which was inaugurated in 2017. She was chair of the ACT Ministerial Advisory Committee for Veterans and their Families and was a Defence Ambassador for the ACT Government. She was a strategic adviser at the Defence Research Institute at the University of New South Wales in Canberra from 2018 to 2019, and has been an adjunct lecturer there since 2017. She became a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours "for significant service to veterans and their families, and to rowing." In June 2022, she was appointed to the board of Paralympics Australia,