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William Stewart has been a Foreign Affairs Columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican since 2000. Mr. Stewart spent nearly 20 years with Time Magazine, beginning in the early 1970s. He held Bureau Chief positions around the globe during his career including New Delhi and Tokyo. As the Middle East Bureau Chief, stationed in Beirut, he covered the Iran-Iraq war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He held positions as State Department Correspondent and Diplomatic Correspondent during the mid 1980s, and was Time's Southeast Asia Bureau Chief based in Hong Kong from 1986 to 1991. Since leaving Time in 1992, Mr. Stewart has had a number of temporary assignments with Time, including 6 months as Acting Bureau Chief in Jerusalem in 1997. Mr. Stewart has interviewed numerous foreign heads of state and important personalities, including Indira Gandhi, Kind Fahd and Prince Abdullah, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Syria's President Assad, Jordan's King Hussein, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Binyamin Netanyahu, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Corazon Aquino, Fidel Castro, and others. Prior to his career at Time Magazine, Mr. Stewart was in the US Foreign Service. He was Vice Consul in Bombay, India from 1962 until 1964, an analyst on Afghanistan to the Director of Intelligence and Research in the mid 1960s, and then spent several years in various positions in Vietnam. Mr. Stewart was born in Dungee, Scotland, and holds degrees in History and Law from Edinburgh University.