His Excellency The Honourable Hieu Van Le AO, Governor of South Australia – “Reflections on two years as Governor of South Australia”

His Excellency was born in South Vietnam in 1954. He attended Dalat University, but fled Vietnam from the new communist regime in 1977, and came to Darwin in an open boat.

The Governor attended the University of Adelaide, receiving an economics and accounting degree and an MBA. He was a señor investigator and manager with ASIC from the early 1990’s until his retirement in 2009.

His Excellency was awarded an Australian Centenary of Federation Medal in 2001 for service to the advancement of multiculturalism and a Companion of the Order of Australian in 2016.

His Excellency was appointed Lieutenant Governor of South Australia in 2007, and on September 1st 2014 he was sworn in as Governor of South Australia.