Ian Stewart is a Partner and Chief Economist with Deloitte UK based in London where he researches the business implications of economic change. Ian devised and runs Deloitte's quarterly survey of Chief Financial Officers, writes the Monday Briefing and comments on the economic scene in the media. Before joining Deloitte Ian spent 12 years as Chief Economist for Europe at the US investment bank, Merrill Lynch in London. He previously worked as Special Adviser in government and as Head of Economics in the Conservative Party’s Research Department.