Irene Kwong Moss AO (born December 9, 1948) is an Australian solicitor and former public servant.
She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Government) and a Bachelor of Laws and from Harvard Law School with a Master of Laws, and became a solicitor at the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. Moss was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of New South Wales.[1]
After some time working for the New South Wales anti-discrimination board, she was the Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1986 to 1994.[2] She was the New South Wales ombudsman from 1995, and from 1999 to 2004 was the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.[3] She has been a board member for various organisations, including becoming the chair of the free speech organisation Australia's Right To Know, a coalition of major Australian media organisations in 2007.[4] Moss has also led a number of Government inquiries. Moss chaired the Sax Institute, a Sydney-based public health and health research organisation, from 2006 to 2018. [citation needed]
She is married to the former chief executive of Macquarie Bank, Allan Moss.