My name is Sten A. Hankewitz and I am an editor, writer, journalist, and translator. I’m also a historian and a geostrategy analyst with particular interest and expertise in European, American and Middle Eastern politics.

I have worked in journalism for over 13 years. I started my career in 1998 as banking, insurance and security reporter in Estonian business daily Äripäev and moved on from there step by step. After Äripäev I worked as an editor and a reporter for a tabloid called Õhtuleht, and then moved to online journalism as a news editor for news portal Mega.

After the news portal was merged with one of the biggest newspapers in Estonia, Eesti Päevaleht, I moved up to be the head of the online department. During my five years at this position, the online site of Eesti Päevaleht become one of the most read and most influential news providers in the country. It took a lot of work from my dedicated team, who at times had to literally work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but we managed and I am very proud of that.

In 2006, I successfully applied for a job in the largest property and casualty insurance company in the country—If P&C Insurance—and became communications manager, where my duties were managing the entire internal and external communications of a company of over 400 people.

From 2007 to 2008 I worked as an editor-in-chief of a new news portal Kalev.ee, where in addition to journalistic management I also was a project manager. According to my plans and projects, a fully functional news portal was developed and created. I was responsible for overall management, recruitment and line management of 15 people. The news portal was unique in the country, providing news in both Estonian and Russian, and focusing on every locality in the country, providing news from people's "back yards"—their counties, towns and villages.

After leaving Kalev.ee in spring 2008, I resided in Spain's sunny comunidad of Andalucia for several months, and in October 2008 I moved to London, where I've been living since. Until February 2011, I worked at economic consultancy firm Roubini Global Economics as editor, and from July 2011, I am working as Copywriter/Editor at Alpari (UK).

I have also been freelancing as journalist and translator, I'm writing several novels, and blogging semi-actively in both English and Estonian.