Vasiliki Nihas OAM

Vasiliki Nihas is a former senior executive with the Australian Public Service, with extensive experience in the cultural diversity and arts and cultural sectors. She also ran her own consulting company specialising in ethics, values, and cultural diversity issues in the public sector.

She was chair of Canberra Arts Marketing for five years, the Jigsaw Theatre Company chair for seven years, and M16 Artspace for almost a decade. Previously, she served as Deputy Chair of the Cultural Council of the ACT. She was also the ACT government-appointed representative on the National Heritage Collections Council and a foundation Board member of the Cultural Facilities Corporation (CFC). She is also a former member of the Immigration Review Tribunal.

Vasiliki has published a book of short stories and her work has appeared in several anthologies of Greek-Australian women writers in both English and Greek.