Stephen Timewell has been Editor-in-Chief of The Banker since 2003. He is the magazine's Middle East specialist, and also covers retail banking. Stephen has written on all corners of the globe and covered a wide variety of industry issues, from investment banking to retail banking and technology. Prior to becoming Editor-in-Chief, he had been Assistant Editor since 1990; before that, Stephen was Editor of Arab Banker from 1988-90. In the 1980s he worked as a political economist for First Chicago and as a finance writer on Middle East Economic Digest.