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Gillian Tett is US managing editor and an assistant editor of the Financial Times. In her previous role, she oversaw global coverage of the financial markets. In March 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.
In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital markets coverage. She was named British Business Journalist of the Year in 2008.
She joined the FT in 1993 and worked in the former Soviet Union and Europe, and in the economics team. In 1997 she was posted to Tokyo where she became the bureau chief, before returning in 2003 to become deputy head of the Lex column. She is the author of Saving the Sun; How Wall Street mavericks shook up Japan’s financial system and made billions (Harper Collins and Random House).
Gillian Tett has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University, based on research conducted in the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. She speaks French, Russian, moderate Japanese and Persian. - -
Ties between sovereigns and banks set to deepen
The assumption that banks provide funding to the private sector rather than act as piggy bank to the state is quietly crumbling, writes Gillian Tett
Japan’s interest rate dilemma casts a shadow over the Fed
The Fed’s problem – like Japan a decade ago – is that the economy is ‘bifurcated’, writes Gillian Tett
Power with grace
Never before has a woman held such a powerful position in the male-dominated world of global finance. Gillian Tett meets Christine Lagarde
Men, women – and machines
Almost any action you take today involves an interconnected digital machine. One might almost call them the third great sex, says Gillian Tett
There’s no time to waste
Gillian Tett looks at ‘dumpster-diving’ – or the art of eating food waste from American garbage skips
Why doesn’t America like science?
Just three Republican candidates have declared that they believe in the scientific basis for evolution, writes Gillian Tett
That’s 1,000 olives, please
Even in the ‘unimaginable’ scenario of a eurozone break-up, it would be less messy than in the USSR in 1991, writes Gillian Tett
Greek bond losses put role of CDS in doubt
The problems presently afflicting eurozone banks and bond markets might be about to get worse, due to the state of the sovereign CDS sector
Trouble in Richistan
The dream – or myth – of mobility was the glue that helped keep America together. But now there are fears that it is in steep decline, writes Gillian Tett
Interrogation is not a social science
Western intelligence groups have been using academics for years: think of all the psychiatrists employed in the cold war, writes Gillian Tett
