Pamela Stirling has been the editor of the award-winning New Zealand Listener since 2003.
Born in Apia, Western Samoa, and educated in New Zealand, she has won numerous awards for writing, including Qantas Magazine Writer of the Year, the Oxford University Press Award, The Media Peace Prize and the Electricorp Scholarship Award, which enabled her to do research at Stanford University.
She was awarded the Wolfson Fellowship to Cambridge University at the 2010 Qantas Media Awards.