Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett is a US editor at large for the Financial Times, leading the newspaper’s editorial operations in the United States across all platforms. She also writes weekly columns on a range of global issues and chairs the editorial board. Previous roles at FT include US managing editor, assistant editor, capital markets editor, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. Tett’s latest book, The Silo Effect, looks at the global economy and financial system through a cultural anthropology lens. Also the author of Fool’s Gold and Saving the Sun, she has been named Columnist of the Year by the British Press Awards, among other honors.