Mr. Stewart, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, served as a judge for the Republic of Singapore’s inaugural “Innovation Award”. In 2005, the European Foundation for Management Development, named him 13th on the “The Thinkers Fifty” list. In 1999, the American Society for Training and Development gave him its second “Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award”. In 1996, Business Intelligence awarded Stewart its inaugural “Knowledge Management Awareness Award” for his contributions to the field of knowledge management. In 1993, the Journal of Financial Reporting named Mr. Stewart to its "Blue Chip Newsroom" of best business journalists. The previous year, he received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation Media Award for his December 1991 cover story, "Gay in Corporate America”.

As the former editor of Harvard Business Review for six years, Mr. Stewart stood at the centre of the flow of ideas in the place that, as The Economist puts it, "almost single-handedly shapes the agenda for management." He led the HBR staff to acquire, develop, and publish landmark articles by leading scholars and other experts. He personally worked with such authors as Michael A. Porter, Kenneth Lieberthal, Elizabeth Economy, Samuel J. Palmisano, Michael Dell, Larry Bossidy, Gary Hamel, Marcus Buckingham, C. K. Prahalad, Geoffrey Moore, Clayton M. Christensen, Robert S. Kaplan, Jeffrey Immelt, Katsuaki Watanabe, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Lawrence Summers, Jeff Bezos, Anand Mahindra, Barbara Kellerman, Bruce Wasserstein, John Chambers, and others. A chief architect of the field of intellectual capital, Tom pioneered the subject with landmark cover stories in Fortune in the 1990s.

Mr. Stewart, 58, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in English literature and holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from City University, London. He is married and has two children.