Mr Galvin is Chair of the Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council (ALEC) as well as a former director and Chair of LiveCorp.

He comes from an extensive rural background in the Northern Territory and overseas. He is the former CEO of Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), a position that he held for nearly 12 years before standing down in 2012. The ILC is a major beef producer and has considerable pastoral holdings and pastoral enterprise agreements on the Indigenous held land across Northern Australia to Tasmania.

Mr Galvin is currently Chair of Woorabinda Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, a Director of the Red Meat Advisory Council, a Director of Paga Hill Development Company (PNG) Ltd, a Director of Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT), and the Managing Director of Tubarao Investments Pty Ltd. He is also a former member of the Advisory Board of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency.

He holds a Master of International Development from Deakin University, Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Certified CEO.