Tien Kieu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tien Kieu

Australian physicist and politician

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1960

Place of Birth: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Profession: politician, physicist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Tien Dung Kieu (Vietnamese: Ki?u Ti?n Dung; born 25 October 1960) is an Australian physicist and politician.
He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 2018, representing South Eastern Metropolitan Region.Kieu was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1961.
In 1979, he and his wife Liem left Vietnam as refugees on a boat to Malaysia, where they lived in a refugee camp until they were approached by Australian officials and offered passage and resettlement in Brisbane.
Kieu worked as a labourer before enrolling at the University of Queensland, beginning an academic career in econophysics which took him to the University of Edinburgh and Oxford University, and then to the United States as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia, Princeton and MIT, before returning to Australia to work at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.