Michael Field

Michael Field read history at Cambridge. He travelled to the Middle East in his long vacations, became a journalist rather by accident and has been working on the Middle East ever since. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked for the Financial Times, and wrote several books, the best known being 'The Merchants', the story of some of the big Arabian business families. In the 1990s he left journalism and worked as a consultant to companies dealing with the Middle East, and from this evolved his main current business which is a series of ruling family trees and government charts covering Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.