Vice President of the Board of the European Australian Business Council; Chairman, Committee for Sydney; Director of Thales Australia; Director of the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue; Director of the Sydney Writers Festival;  on the board of the Partnership Executive of the National Rugby League; Councillor on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra; member of the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, University of Wollongong; Member of The International Institute for Strategic Studies (London); Fellow of the Centre for International Legal Studies (Salzburg).

Stephen Loosley has held a senior executive role for Babcock & Brown, acting as Principal Strategic Adviser to the firm. Stephen was the General Secretary of the NSW branch of the Australian Labor Party (1983-90), prior to being elected to the Australian Senate in 1990.  During his term, he served as Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also served as the Australian Labor Party National President from 1991-92.

Stephen holds First Class Honours degrees in Politics (UNSW, 1976) and the Law (UTS, 1997) Stephen has contributed chapters to the books Australian-American Relations: LookingToward the Next Century by William T. Tow (South Yarra: McMillan Education - 1998) and The Wran Era by Troy Bramston (The Federation Press - 2005).

Stephen is a columnist for the New Zealand Herald, a former columnist for The Sunday Telegraph and an occasional contributor to The Australian.