Hieu Van LeHieu Van Le 

Chairman, Australian National Maritime Museum, Australia

Hon Hieu Van Le AC is the Chair of the Council of the Australian National Maritime Museum. A former Governor of South Australia, he will deliver a keynote presentation focusing on his experiences of arriving by boat as a refugee from Vietnam in 1977. In addition to holding senior government positions, including as Deputy and later Chair of the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission, he served as Lieutenant Governor for seven years before his appointment as Governor of South Australia in 2014. During his seven years in this role, Mr Le was patron of over 230 charitable and community organisations.