Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett
OBE
Tett in September 2014
Provost of King's College, Cambridge
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 2023
Personal details
Born (1967-07-10) 10 July 1967 (age 57)[1]
CitizenshipBritish
Children2
EducationNorth London Collegiate School
Alma materClare College, Cambridge[2]
OccupationU.S. Managing Editor, Editorial Board Chair, Financial Times

Gillian Romaine Tett OBE (born 10 July 1967) is a British author and journalist. She is the chair of the editorial board for the Financial Times, jointly serving as its U.S. editor-at-large.[3][4] She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. Tett co-founded Moral Money, the paper's sustainability newsletter.

Her work covering the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08[5][6] received extensive media attention for its prescient coverage of the financial instruments that led to the crisis.[7][8] Tett was appointed the provost of King's College, Cambridge in October 2023.[9]

Early life and education

Tett was born on 10 July 1967.[10] She was educated at the North London Collegiate School, an independent school for girls in Edgware, in the London Borough of Harrow in northwest London,[11] during which time, at the age of 17, she worked for a Pakistani nonprofit.[8]

After leaving school, Tett studied at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Archaeology and Anthropology.[12][13] She then undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Social Anthropology based on field research in Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union.[14][15] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Ambiguous alliances: marriage and identity in a Muslim village in Soviet Tajikistan".[16] She expressed frustration with an academic anthropology career that in her view was like committing "intellectual suicide"[8] and decided instead to pursue a career in journalism.[17]

Career

In 1993, Tett joined the Financial Times as a correspondent from the former Soviet Union and Europe. In 1997, she was posted to Tokyo, where she later became bureau chief.[14] In 2003, she became deputy head of the Lex column.[18][19][20][21] Tett was then U.S. managing editor at the FT, before working as an assistant editor and columnist before returning to the U.S. managing editor position.[14][22] She is also the chairwoman of the board of trustees for the Knight–Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism with Columbia University.

From 2005 to 2007, Tett conducted ethnographic research on the American banking institution J.P. Morgan and discovered that the insular culture was leading to the creation of financial instruments that had little basis and that could cause severe economic disruption. In a series of articles in the Financial Times between 2006-07, she wrote about the dangers posed by securitization and financial derivatives, and the unreliability of credit rating agencies.[23][24][25][26][8] Her 2009 book 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 recounts the lead-up to the economic crisis and the eventual collapse. She also played a significant role in the 2010 documentary Inside Job about the financial crisis of 2008.[8] The book was widely reviewed throughout the English-speaking world[27][28] and won the Spear's Book Award for the financial book of 2009.[29][30]

Anthro-Vision, a New Way to See in Life and Business, published in June 2021, concerns the behaviour of organizations, individuals, and markets by looking through an anthropological lens.[citation needed]

King's College, Cambridge

In February 2023, her election was announced as the next Provost of King's College, Cambridge.[31] She took up the post in October 2023 in succession to Professor Michael Proctor.[32]

Personal life

Tett lives in London, England and has two children.[33] Tett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to economic journalism.[34]

Awards and honours

Books

  • Saving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions, 2004 (ISBN 978-0060554255).
  • Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe ISBN 978-1-4087-0164-5
    • Alternate Title: Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dreams of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4165-9857-2)
  • The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, 2015 (ISBN 978-1451644739)
  • Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life, 2021

References

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  5. ^ MacKenzie, Donald (25 June 2009). "All Those Arrows". London Review of Books. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
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  10. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 10 July 2014. p. 31.
  11. ^ Accomplished ONLS – Distinguished ONLS List Archived 7 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Publisher: North London Collegiate. Retrieved: 23 February 2014.
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  15. ^ Medland, Dina (2009). "Take Three" (PDF). University of Cambridge. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  16. ^ Tett, Gillian (1996). "Ambiguous alliances: marriage and identity in a Muslim village in Soviet Tajikistan". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  17. ^ "Saving the Sun: Shinsei and the Battle for Japan's Future". Book launch event – author biography. The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation. February 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  18. ^ "Barclays Chief Executive to Spearhead Task Force on Tax and Benefits". HM Treasury. 19 May 1997. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  19. ^ Farey-Jones, Daniel (26 September 2005). "Financial Times doubles coverage of Lex column". Brand Republic. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  20. ^ Morgan, Jean (30 September 2007). "FT's Lex expands". Press Gazette. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  21. ^ Ali, Rafat (6 June 2008). "WSJ To Sever Ties With Breakingviews; Selling Its Minority Stake?". Paidcontent.org. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
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  23. ^ "Financial wizards' debt to ratings agencies". Financial Times. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  24. ^ "Elaborate debt deals spread risk but distort the data | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  25. ^ "Failing grades? | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  26. ^ Barton, Laura (31 October 2008). "On the money". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  27. ^ Murali, D. (19 July 2009). "Money, a vital fluid that must flow freely". The Hindu. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  28. ^ Sunderland, Ruth (7 June 2009). "They had parties, we got the hangover". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  29. ^ Allentuck, Andrew (3 July 2009). "Imaginary money". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  30. ^ Barrett, Paul M. (12 June 2009). "Rewriting the Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
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  40. ^ "The British Academy President's Medal". British Academy. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
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  44. ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients". University of Miami. 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
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