Noel Mifsud was named as one of Australia’s Most Influential Educational Leaders by The Educator in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

He has served as Principal of three schools in SA and remote Aboriginal communities in the NT. His career includes wintering station leader in Casey Station, Antarctica and Captain in the Australian Army Education Corps. He is Chair of the SA Multicultural Education and Languages Committee and member of the Education Standards Board of SA.

Noel has engaged in education, public speaking or humanitarian service on every continent and in 2024 was presented a award by the then, Chief Justice of SA for outstanding service to the SA community and advancement of intercultural understanding and peace.  He is a founding member of the SA Intercultural Peace Forum, CEO and Director of Malteser International Asia Pacific (incorporating Order of Malta Timor Leste Medical Clinic).  In 2025 Noel was invited as a speaker at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Conference in New York.

Noel is currently the Manager of Community Relations for Rex Minerals and has served as a Justice of the Peace for 36 years in the NT and SA