Dr Stephen Wilks is based in the National Centre of Biography, School of History. He is an academic research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. 

He holds a 2018 doctorate in Australian history from the ANU about national economic and social development in the twentieth century, focussed on the career of Earle Page. From 1982 to 2018 he had a varied career in the Commonwealth Government, including in AusAID, the Departments of Infrastructure, Regional Australia, Innovation, Immigration, Trade, and Foreign Affairs, and at Australian overseas missions in Jakarta and Hong Kong.

He has contributed over seventy book reviews and articles to the Australian Journal of Biography and History, Fairfax Media and other publishers, mainly on modern Australian, British and United States history and biography. He is the author of the book 'Now is the Psychological  Moment': Earle Page and the Imagining of Australia, along with several articles on Earle Page and his ideas, such as for the Australian Policy and History network. Stephen was editor of 'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers, and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives, for which he also authored several entries. He twice won the ACT Writers Centre Reviewer of the Year Award, for which he subsequently served as judge, and has extensive experience of delivering public presentations, such as for the Parliamentary Library and the ACT Heritage Library.

BEc Hons (Monash), PhD (ANU)

Biography, especially political biography; Australian Prime Ministers: Victorian state politics: postwar conservatism in Australia: the United States presidency: ideas about Australian national development