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Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times and oversees the 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. - -
Insight: The clearing house rules
Don’t let the fact that no clearing house has failed before create complacency, writes Gillian Tett
Insight: Lessons learned in Singapore
What is being quietly tried in Singapore’s property market may yet spread to western markets, writes Gillian Tett
Michael Moore must leave US to find new elite
Global equity strategists do not often star in Hollywood films. Right now, however, that fate has befallen Ajay Kapur, an analyst who formerly worked for Citi
Insight: Dangers of silo thinking
Some financiers, investors and policy makers are belatedly trying to combat tunnel vision and fragmentation, writes Gillian Tett
Liquidated
This fascinating ethnographic analysis on the behaviour of Wall Street banks produces a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers, writes Gillian Tett
Lunch with the FT: David Hare
The playwright talks to Gillian Tett about his latest work ‘The Power of Yes’ and explains why he cannot understand, let alone empathise with, bankers’ motives
The ghosts of AIG prosper
It remains tough for regulators to assess whether risks are being handled sensibly, due to a paucity of counterparty data
Watch Barclays in the cellar
‘SIV’ has become almost as taboo a term as ‘subprime securitisation’. But Barclays ‘newly established fund’ called Protium Finance excites a twinge of déjà vu
Market Insight: Banks can learn from football
I don’t know whether Lloyd Blankfein is a fan of English football. Right now, however, the head of Goldman Sachs might do well to peek at Chelsea football club, says Gillian Tett
Insight: A matter of retribution
Thousands of financiers were punished after the Savings & Loans scandals in the 1990s. Gillian Tett examines why so few prosecutions have emerged from the current crisis
