A journalist since 1987, he has worked for the ABC, SBS, the Seven Network, and Sky News Australia.
From 2001 to 2012 he worked for CNN as an anchor and senior International Correspondent in Asia and the Middle East.
As a journalist, he has received a string of prestigious international and Australian awards, including the US Peabody and DuPont awards, three time winner of the Walkley Awards, four time winner of the Asia TV Awards, an Australian Logie Award, two Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards and a GQ Man of the Year agenda setter award.
He has published six critically acclaimed and best selling books, and wrote the feature documentary, the Australian Dream, on the racist treatment of AFL football star, Adam Goodes. That film has screened around the world and has so far won more than a dozen international film awards.
Stan is the former host of ABC TV’s China Tonight and Q and A, and International Affairs Analyst at the ABC.
He is the Director of the Constructive Institute Asia Pacific, Professor of Journalism at Monash University and Chair of Yindyamarra nguluway at Charles Sturt University.
Stan is also a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
