Gerard Dwyer

Gerard Dwyer (born 1963) is an Australian trade unionist who has served as the President of Union Network International since 2023, and National Secretary-Treasurer of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association (SDA) since 2014.

He was appointed Vice President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in 2017. In 2020 he was appointed as an Alternate Director of the superannuation fund Rest Super. He is also a director of the Labor Party-aligned Thinktank the John Curtin Research Centre.

Dwyer is also a member of the Australian Government's Ministerial Advisory Board on Skilled Migration, with his term due to expire in June 2027. He was previously a member of the National Workplace Relations Consultative Council, serving from 2022 to 2024.

Personal life Born in the town of Casino, New South Wales in 1963, Dwyer's family was firmly unionist. His uncle once ran as a state Labor candidate and his grandfather was a union delegate at a butter factory. He studied education at Australian Catholic University, working as a teacher and social worker before beginning his career as a union official.