Stephen Loosley

Stephen Loosley (born 29 December 1952) is an Australian lawyer and former politician. He was a New South Wales Labor Senator from 1990 to 1995.

Early life Loosley was born on 29 December 1952 in Carlton, New South Wales. He is the son of Jean Elizabeth (née Pike) and Bernard Alan Loosley.

In the Senate, Loosley spoke frequently on foreign policy and human rights matters. He served as chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 1993 to 1995.

Later activities Loosley completed a law degree in 1997, which he had begun in 1993 while still in the Senate. He joined Sydney law firm Dunhill Madden Butler, initially as director of its international and trade law division. He was made a partner in 1996 and remained with the firm following its acquisition by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999, leaving in 2006 to join Babcock & Brown as a strategic adviser. After that firm went into liquidation in 2009 he worked for Minter Ellison until 2015 as a strategic counsel. Loosley has been the deputy chairman, Non-Executive Director, of Thales Group on the Australian board of directors.

Loosley is an expert on American politics and is a regular commentator on US elections in Australian media outlets.

In 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.