ABOUT ME /ABOUT THIS SITE
ABOUT ME
I've spent my career in and around the regulation of the financial services industry, 27 years working for the regulators and another seven as a consultant. I stopped fulltime work in 2023 so that, among other things, I could spend more time writing.
In sport, I began rowing at university and ended up competing internationally for about nine years (1987-95), including two Olympics. I also spent about twelve years (1992-2004) in sports administration, including spells as Chair of the BOA Athletes' Commission and of UK Sport's Lottery Panel.
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I was born in Belfast and grew up there and in Bournemouth. I've lived in London since 1988 and in Tower Hamlets since 1993. I'm married and we have two grown up children.
My first novel, Walk the Line, was published in 2018 and the second, An Endless Chain, is due out at the end of this month. You can order it here.
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ABOUT THIS SITE
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I'm not a full-time writer but I've now written enough that it makes sense to start bringing it together in a single place. My writing is both fiction and non-fiction, the latter mainly about regulation and sport.
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I started Walk the Line in mid-2004 and eventually finished it in 2016. Here's the blog I posted on LinkedIn about how I came to write it. My second novel, An Endless Chain, was published in November 2024 and is related to the first, but more in a parent/child way than as a conventional sequel. You can order it here - Olympia Publishers | An Endless Chain by Gavin Stewart - or through your local bookshop as well as Amazon etc.
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Since 2017, I've been posting frequent blogs on regulation, mostly relating to financial services. My posts since June 2020 can be found on my LinkedIn site. I'm also working to be able to publish them here also, as an archive that you can search to find specific articles and subjects, as well as what was happening at a specific period.
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The writing on sport is on LinkedIn too, and in future will also be on my Instagram account. My sporting life was a strange one, a rollercoaster product of its time but in some ways just random. Now that I have some distance and perspective, I want to explore some of the wider issues involved in modern sport as well as the history around my own experiences.
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Recently, I recorded an interview with Martin Cross (Rowing commentator and Olympic Gold & Bronze medallist) for his Crossy's Corner YouTube channel (Crossy's Corner with Gavin Stewart - YouTube) - also available on Facebook. It was, for me, a highly enjoyable whirlwind tour, from the 1987 Boat Race mutiny through to my experience with UK Sport as Chair of its Lottery Awards Panel​. If you're at all interested in the evolution of British rowing and Olympic sport in general during the last couple of decades of the 20th century then I think it's worth a watch/listen.​
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​​​​I hope you enjoy the site. And please send me any thoughts or questions at gavinbstewart1@gmail.com