Rod Phillips ECO is a Canadian businessman and former politician who was the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Ajax from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Phillips served as Ontario's minister of the environment, conservation and parks from 2018 to 2019, minister of finance from 2019 to 2020, and minister of long-term care from 2021 to 2022.

Phillips ran for MPP in the 2018 provincial election, following which his PC Party would form government. Premier Doug Ford named him environment minister, before promoting him to the finance portfolio, succeeding Vic Fedeli. He resigned from that role in 2020, after he took a vacation to St. Barts contrary to his government's public health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic, but was later named the minister of long-term care in 2021. Phillips resigned from cabinet in 2022 and resigned his seat in February, 2022, he did not run in the 2022 election.

Before politics, Phillips was the former president and CEO of Shepell-fgi, a professional services company, from 2002 to 2010; the president and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) from 2011 to 2014; the chair of Postmedia from 2014 to 2017; and chair of CivicAction from 2014 to 2017. After stepping down from cabinet and resigning his seat, Phillips became vice-chair of Canaccord Genuity. He sits on the board of Aecon Group Inc.

Phillips graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and English. He completed a master of business administration degree at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, graduating in 1992. Phillips also holds an ICD.D designation from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.^{[citation needed]}

Phillips worked for KPMG. In 2001, after stint working as chief of staff to the mayor of Toronto, Mel Lastman, Phillips became co-managing director of the venture division of Goodmans LLP, one of Canada's leading law firms. A non-lawyer, his fellow co-managing director of the Goodmans Venture Group was Dale Lastman, the Goodmans co-chair and son of Mel Lastman.

In 2002, Phillips became president and CEO of Shepell-fgi, a company that delivered workplace health and productivity solutions to eight million employees and family members from over 7,000 organizations in Canada and 54 other countries. Under Phillips's leadership, Shepell-fgi (now Morneau-Shepell) grew its services to include elder and child support, legal advice, financial guidance, and help with mental health and addiction issues.

In May 2011, Phillips was recruited by the Province of Ontario to be the new president and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, a government agency, reporting into the Ministry of Finance. During his tenure at OLG, Phillips led an effort to rehabilitate its reputation following several widely publicized scandals involving theft of winning tickets and fraudulently claimed prizes.

Phillips led the corporation to its highest net profit since 2005 and oversaw the design and launch of the modernization of Ontario's lottery and gaming industry. Under Phillips's direction, OLG was praised after it was able to identify a $50 million lottery winner, Kathy Jones, who had lost her winning ticket. Phillips presented Jones with her prize-winning cheque in a photo-op.