Dr Stephen Clarke is a history graduate of the University of Otago and the University of New South Wales with a longstanding interest in the social history of Aotearoa New Zealand. After two years as Historian with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, he joined the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association in 2001. As chief executive he led the strategic transformation and rebrand of the RSA between 2008 and 2013, and later wrote 'After the War: The RSA in New Zealand'. He is an independent historian and founding director of Making History Ltd.