Foundation Members - 12 April 1977
Interim National Council
An interim Council was appointed at the first meeting of the AIES conducted at the National Emergency Management Centre, Mt Macedon (now Australian Emergency Management Institute [AEMI]), Victoria.
- Joseph H. Lewis-Hughes - Deputy Director, State Emergency Service and Counter Disaster New South Wales (Chairman)
- Lt Col Alan Windsor - Director, State Emergency Service Queensland
- M.D Currie - Victoria
- Lt Col L.G Gardiner- Tasmania
- Brian Lancaster - Deputy Director, State Emergency Service South Australia
- Lt Col Mal Bromell - Director, State Emergency Service Western Australia
- Air Vice Marshal Nick Carter - Director, National Emergency Management College Mount Macedon Victoria - (representing Commonwealth)
- Air Vice Marshall William Townsend - Director, New South Wales State Emergency Service and Counter Disaster (Absent)
Members
- Keith Alcock - Division Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Col Charles Allen - Assistant Director, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Chris Cullen - Personnel Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- James Donohoe - Chief Liaison Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Maj Alan Grant - Chief Training Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- William Edgar Hulcombe - Chief Engineer, Public Works Department New South Wales
- Greg James - Local Government New South Wales
- Raymond Lennox - Deputy Director, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Robert Maul - Chief Operations and Plans Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Valerie Martin - Division Controller, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Robert Moran - Division Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Norman Henry Piper - Chief Engineer, Sydney Water New South Wales
- James Pullin - Division Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Michael Rushbrook - Division Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Air Vice Marshall William Townsend - Director, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Ian Charles Walker - Training Officer, State Emergency Service & Counter Disaster New South Wales
- Leslie Watson - Local Controller, State Emergency Service City Of Sydney Council New South Wales
- Thelma Crouch - Queensland
- Joseph Johnson - Queensland
- Harry Pegg - Queensland
- Thomas See - Queensland
- Lloyd Williams - Queensland
- John Horlock - Victoria
- Ian Benjamin - South Australia
- William Brassington - South Australia
- Barbara Bray - South Australia
- John Gibson - South Australia
- Phillip Green - South Australia
- Roger Halliday - South Australia Police
- Noel Hodges - South Australia
- Fred Lane - South Australia Police
- Stuart McCloed
- Lt Col Ronald Nicholls - Director, State Emergency Service South Australia
- David Sartian - South Australia
- Alan Beer, Principal Staff Officer (Training), State Emergency Service Tasmania
- Brian Brand, Regional Officer, State Emergency Service Tasmania
- Lt Col Les Gardner, Principal Staff Officer (Planning), State Emergency Service Tasmania
- Gayle Paltridge, Director of Emergency Services and State Fire Commissioner Tasmania
- Peter Patmore, Regional Officer, State Emergency Service Tasmania
- Joe Paul, Principal Staff Officer (Operations), State Emergency Service Tasmania
