George Godfrey Phillips CBE (7 June 1900 – 24 October 1965), was a British barrister and, later, solicitor, who served as the Commissioner General of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1939 to 1942.

[1] He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in Law Tripos.

[6] In January 1940, Phillips was the subject of an assassination attempt when 3 Chinese men riddled his car with bullets while he was being driven to work.

[7] At the beginning of the Pacific War, on December 8, 1941, Japanese troops occupied the International Settlement.

Mr Kohei Teraoka (a Japanese consular official who had been appointed deputy secretary in 1941) was appointed Secretary of the Council and Mr Katsuo Okazaki, the chairman to the council, took over the role of Commissioner General in an honorary capacity.