Dr Tien Kieu MP | STEM Education Ambassador
Victorian State Government

Dr Kieu is proudly Victoria’s STEM Education Ambassador, Deputy Chair of the Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee and Co-Chair of Victorian Parliamentarians for STEM.


Tien Kieu MP was born in Saigon, Vietnam where his family faced discrimination under the North Vietnamese regime, subsequently escaping by boat to find freedom. Finally settled in Australia, Tien worked as a labourer before attending the University of Queensland, and then the University of Edinburgh, where he received a doctorate in theoretical physics. He has worked at Oxford University, Melbourne University, CSIRO and Swinburne University. He has also been to Princeton, MIT, and as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University.