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Gillian Tett

US Managing Editor,

Financial Times

  • Financial Times, Editor-at-Large, US
  • Co-Founder of Moral Money
  • Columnist of the Year, British Press Awards

About Gillian

Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. Ms. Tett 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. Ms. 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.

Gillian's Books

Gillian Tett

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her news-breaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool’s Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown.

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