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Gillian Tett

Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, US

Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.

In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.

Tett’s past roles at the FT have included US managing editor, assistant editor, capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

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  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
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  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
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    How to beat jet lag in Tokyo

    Body clock not yet on JST? The FT’s former Tokyo bureau chief Gillian Tett shares her top three ways to cope

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
    Capital markets
    Investors are too complacent about negative yields

    The markets are vulnerable to potential nasty losses if rates suddenly shoot up

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
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    Straw wars: the consumer strikes back

    Single-use plastics have become a cause célèbre for teenagers and millennials – and businesses are having to act fast

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
    Moral Money
    Flooding analysis, green QE, environmental lobbying 

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2019
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    Bill Gates: world needs to move faster on inequality

    Microsoft founder says progress ‘nowhere near’ hitting UN development goals for 2030

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
    Central banks
    Central banks are rethinking their roles

    Staunch independence makes less sense in deflationary times

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
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    She Said — how the Weinstein story broke

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    Is populism here to stay?

    Surveys show that the public appetite for ‘strongman’ leaders goes hand in hand with renewed political engagement

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    Moral Money
    Green property, Frontier impact, US chiefs v gun violence

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

  • Friday, 6 September, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Does capitalism need saving from itself?

    Gillian Tett on why bosses are buying into the idea of a purpose beyond profit

  • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
    US economy
    America’s debt-laden students need better policy solutions

    The education loan problem is creating economic drag and fuelling anti-establishment politics

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
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    Fear, loathing and automation

    Technology’s threat to jobs fuels populist anger. But lack of labour mobility could be a bigger problem

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
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    Tobacco ESG concerns; Libra financial inclusion; KKR-UBS

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2019
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    Beef under fire; proxy power; Soros’ royal deal

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore   

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
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    Capitalism’s watershed; WeWork charity; Pacific climate row

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2019
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    What US politicians can learn from the restaurant trade

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    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

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    The anthropologist who changed our thinking on race

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    Farage, fundraising and the inescapable elite

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  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    Global Economy
    The business case against Bretton Woods

    International financial institutions designed 75 years ago are no longer fit for purpose

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