Bill Spindle is Business Editor of the National, the Abu Dhabi-based English-language newspaper. He oversees a staff of 25 journalists who cover all aspects of business, finance and economics in the UAE, the GCC and beyond.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Spindle was the Corporate Finance Editor for the Wall Street Journal, where he was the senior manager responsible for a team of reporters covering the “new Wall Street”: hedge funds, private equity and investment banking.

Mr. Spindle joined the Tokyo bureau of the Journal in 1997 and covered Japan's economy and financial services industry for four years. He was appointed deputy bureau chief in 1999. He speaks Japanese. He moved to the Journal’s head office in New York City in April of 2001 and served as assistant foreign editor until July 2002, when he became Bureau Chief and Chief Correspondent for the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and South Asia, responsible for managing a team of reporters in those regions.

He was based in Rome, Italy between 2004 and 2007.

Before joining the Journal, Mr. Spindle worked at Bloomberg Business News and Business Week magazine in Tokyo, and earlier he worked for three years at Newsday on Long Island, N.Y. He began his career as a reporter with the Ann Arbor (Mich.) News.

In December 2004, Mr. Spindle was among a group of Wall Street Journal reporters who won The Elizabeth Neuffer Award for Print Journalism for its series on the United Nations.

Mr. Spindle earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and has a master's degree in Journalism and International Affairs from Columbia University in New York City.