Stephanie Kerstein

Posted: October 17, 2024

STEPHANIE KERSTEIN – is returning for a second stint on the AMP committee, having completed a fixed three-year term (2021-2024) as a trustee director of the MGN Pension Scheme. She served on the AMP committee previously from 2010–2021.

She said: “I was pleased to be invited back on to the AMP committee. I never expected to get a Mirror pension at all when Robert Maxwell went overboard, and it is down to the hard work of the AMP and the trustees that we enjoy comparative pension security today. It is a privilege to look after the pensions and the pensioners.”
Stephanie left the Mirror in 1993 after Maxwell’s death. She had worked as a researcher in the Live Letters department alongside the Old Codgers, as well as dealing with readers’ letters. Before that she was secretary to Sunday Mirror sports editor, Tony Smith. After she left the Mirror, Stephanie worked at The Guardian as an editorial administrator until she took voluntary redundancy in 2010. She has always been active in union affairs and became the equality rep for Unite the Union at The Guardian. Stephanie enjoys gardening and walking her energetic dog Harvey. For some years, she sat as a Magistrate in the City of London until she had to retire, and volunteered in the Friends’ shop at Barts Hospital until the arrival of Covid. She is now part of a proof-reading group overseeing the printed pamphlets that Barts Trust puts out. She also volunteers at her local library.