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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. - -
How ‘good’ does a shampoo need to be?
In today’s world, CSR programmes have become a useful salve for a troubled corporate conscience, writes Gillian Tett
Forget the big bonuses; a pay squeeze is coming
By 2017 bank pay could look very different from how it appeared in the boom. And capitalism will look all the better for it, writes Gillian Tett
Stressed? It’s the new normal
After five long years of financial turmoil, Americans might – just possibly – be getting used to shocks, writes Gillian Tett
Europe could learn from US debt scramble
When default loomed America’s banks and government collaborated to prepare for the worst and that ‘dry run’ offers valuable lessons for the eurozone
The US: The paradox of 2012 a defensive, short-term America
Gillian Tett finds a nation looking at itself with unease
Pick your channel, choose your news
The growth of customised media, which espouse explicit tribal views, sets America apart from other western countries, writes Gillian Tett
US debt reduction has a long way to go
Not everybody can try to grow their way out of trouble by exporting at the same time
The Iron Lady heads to America
The biopic demystifies austerity and shows that a nation can go through that painful tunnel and emerge at the other side, writes Gillian Tett
Hildebrand affair a blow for Europe’s public bodies
It would be tragic if this episode now pushes financiers and bureaucrats into their career silos again, writes Gillian Tett
Why the euro went nuclear
It is fascinating to see the degree to which finance is now being discussed using phrases drawn from the science of atoms, writes Gillian Tett
