Peter Gerard Dunphy (born 1 June 1966), is a British staffing business CEO, who serves as Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation for 2024/25.

[1] Born in 1966 at Consett,[2] Dunphy was brought up in Lanchester, County Durham, and educated at St Bede's School.

Dunphy is a business investment adviser and was previously an investment director of James Caan's Hamilton Bradshaw Private Equity, the CEO of FRG Recruitment and the former CEO of recruitment company, Dryden Human Capital (formerly Darwin Rhodes Group), at the time the largest insurance staffing firm globally.

[3] Also a film producer (as Peter Gerard Dunphy), he has acted as Lead Producer or Executive Producer for over a dozen films including Mad to Be Normal starring David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon; Funny Cow starring Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine and Stephen Graham; Letters to Sofija, Two Graves with Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns and David Hayman; the feature length autobiographical The Quiet One about Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, Surviving Christmas with the Relatives, Chris Gollon: Life in Paint featuring the late British painter Chris Gollon and the feature-length documentary Bicycle.

[9] A Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers,[10] Dunphy is a long-serving Trustee of the Honourable The Irish Society, serving as Deputy Governor between 2019 and 2021.