Gillian Romaine Tett
Provost, Kings College; Editorial Board Chair, Financial Times
Gillian Romaine Tett, OBE, is Provost of Kings College, Cambridge University in the UK and a columnist and editorial board member for the Financial Times. She previously served as FT Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, US. She has been writing weekly columns for many years, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues, and co-founded FT Moral Money, a sustainability newsletter.Tett was the FT’s US managing editor from 2013 to 2019. She was named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009), Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in British Press awards and won three American SABEW awards. She is also an award-winning and best-selling author of Anthro-Vision, A New Way to See Life and Business (2021), The Silo Effect (2015); Fool’s Gold (2009) and Saving the Sun (2003). She has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union, and has been decorated for her work promoting social science.
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