ABOUT ME /ABOUT THIS SITE
ABOUT ME
I've so far spent my career in and around the regulation of the financial services industry, 27 years working for the regulators, and as a consultant since 2016.
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.
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 is available through major bookshops as well as Amazon.
ABOUT THIS SITE
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.
I started Walk the Line in mid-2004 and eventually finished it in 2016. Here's the blog I posted on LinkedIn bout how I came to write it. I'm now working on a second novel, provisionally titled The Endless Chain.
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.
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.
I hope you enjoy the site. And please send me any thoughts or questions at gavinstewart63@yahoo.com.