Stephen is 39 years old and lives adjacent to the Central Market with wife Emily, a senior accountant, daughter Megan and son Oliver.  He has lived, worked and/or studied in the city for 20 years and his personal interests include cities, technology, food/culture, photography, sustainability, arts and design.

Elected to the Adelaide City Council in 2007, he was Deputy Lord Mayor in 2009.  He is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has a Bachelor of Arts (Planning), Graduate Diploma (Regional and Urban Planning) and Graduate Diploma (Environmental Studies).  Stephen has finished his Masters in Business Administration and will graduate in December of this year.

His business is developing cities.  He has nearly 20 years experience as a City Planner, working extensively in State Government, in the South Australian Parliament as an Environment, Resources and Development Researcher and as the Principal Town Planner at the City of Playford.  Stephen has also researched and/or lectured in Australia, Denmark, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand on environment and development planning and management, as well as studying future cities in Japan's technology city Tsukuba.

Stephen is the Presiding Member of the Local Government Association committee overseeing the State/Local Government Climate Change Sector Agreement and has been on the Capital City Committee, Adelaide Convention and Tourism Authority Board and the Adelaide High School Governing Council.

His major achievements on Adelaide City Council have been to:

• Become the first fully digital and paperless elected member in Australia
• Provide leadership in modernisation of the corporation for greater efficiency
• Support and get further funding for business tourism
• Advocate for increasing the city population, the arts and multiculturalism
• Gain additional funding to make Adelaide cleaner and greener
• Facilitate community and Council carbon emission reductions and energy savings
• Expand the free city wireless network to be the nations largest
• Push for laneway development and streamlining of rules for implementation
• Make Adelaide the 1st Fair Trade Capital City in Australia