Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett is an award-winning journalist and one of the world’s pre-eminent authorities on capital markets and the role they play in the global financial crisis. She is widely credited with being the first to cover the credit crunch in the mainstream press. In recognition of this work, she has been awarded three prestigious awards: Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards 2009, British Business Journalist of the Year in 2008, and the Wincott prize in 2007. Gillian is the author of 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, and Saving the Sun about Japan’s financial collapse in the 1990s. She was Japan bureau chief for the FT during the ‘lost decade’. Gillian is now assistant editor of the FT, overseeing global coverage of financial markets and writing a regular column for FT. Gillian has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University.
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