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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. - -
Calls for radical rethink of derivatives body
ISDA will need to reposition itself if it is to regain real clout. It could take a leaf out of Mr Greenspan’s book and admit it made a mistake by assuming self-regulation would always work, says Gillian Tett
Time for debate on equity market structure
Could it be time to ask investors to pay higher upfront trading fees in order to build a less costly financial system?
Getting into US investment banking
In spite of the 2008 crash, the once-minor Chartered Financial Analyst exams are still viewed globally as a passport to success, write Rachel Sanderson and Gillian Tett
Trading volumes retreat with investor trust
The most pernicious issue hanging over the system right now is a loss of confidence when it seems that nobody really understands how the basic mechanics of the equity market work any more
Time for true debate on Fannie and Freddie
Astonishingly the 2,300 page financial reform bill that President Barack Obama signed this week makes barely any mention of the problem of government-sponsored enterprises
Anger lingers in middle America over Goldman
As millions of Americans have writhed in pain from the financial and economic turmoil, there has been a rising sense of anger – and a growing clamour for “justice” to be done
‘Bail-in’ will save the taxpayer from the bail-out
A workable solution to the ‘Too Big To Fail’ conundrum, writes Gillian Tett
Asian players are a worry for eurozone
While the sovereign wealth funds of countries such as China loathe the limelight, their potential market power is rising steadily as their coffers swell
School is out, but does the final bell toll for London?
For some financial players, the costs of operating in London are finally starting to outweigh those lifestyle issues, writes Gillian Tett
West looks for clues in radical Rogernomics
In normal circumstances, western financial officials do not spend much time pondering New Zealand. Right now, however, these are not normal times as far as harassed European and American budget officials are concerned
