Stephen Mayne

ESG Columnist

A Walkley Award-winning business journalist and Australia's best known shareholder activist, Stephen Mayne has asked questions at more than 1000 AGMs since 1998, all facilitated by owning one of the world's biggest small share portfolios: 400+ holdings worth less than $80,000.

After nine years working on newspapers such as The Age and the Australian Financial Review and 18 months working for Jeff Kennett, he founded online newsletter Crikey.com in 2000. He's served two stints on the board of the Australian Shareholders' Association and served two terms as a councillor at the City of Manningham and one term at City of Melbourne.

Stephen campaigns broadly for transparency, good governance and accountability across the media, business and political sectors and writes a fortnightly column for Intelligent Investor. He also features on The Money Cafe podcast with Alan every second week and has conducted more than 20 interviews of public company chairs and CEOs for the group.