The charts are the work of Michael Field, who has been involved in the Middle East for the last 35 years.
In the 1970s and 1980s he worked in the region as a journalist for the Financial Times.
He now has his own consultancy business working for companies investing in or trading with the region.
He is the author of three books.
• A Hundred Million Dollars a Day
pub. Sidgwick & Jackson (1975)
• The Merchants – The Big Business Families of Arabia
pub. in UK by John Murray (1984), in USA by Overlook (1986)
• Inside the Arab World
pub. in UK by John Murray (1994), in USA by Harvard University Press (1995)
