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    Gillian Tett

    Columnist and member of the editorial board

    Gillian Tett is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

    Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, ran Moral Money, the FT's sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, and wrote two columns a week. Gillian's earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT; assistant editor; capital markets editor; deputy editor of the Lex column; Tokyo bureau chief; reporter in Russia and Brussels.

    She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America's Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling and award-winning author of four books, and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science. She has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith's, London in the UK.

    Email Gillian Tett @gilliantett  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
    • Friday, 21 June, 2024
      Global Economy
      Crisis memory, geopolitics and the risks of financial contagion

      The question of how well we can deal with shocks in our future is not at all clear

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a red ribbon tied around a big foam hand, to help the economy world remember the past. The hand is made up of a 100 dollar bill
    • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
      Property
      What investors should learn from a Berlin housing saga

      Corporate boards might be surprised by some of the ideas floating around on Europe’s left-leaning political wing

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of houses for rent appear as teeth - ready to bite- in Berlin’s bear mouth, while the red tongue shapes an economy arrow.
    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      InterviewAt Home with the FT
      Jane Hartley, US ambassador to the UK: ‘I call it the essential relationship’

      She talks to Gillian Tett about transatlantic friendship, night walks with her dog, Barack Obama’s envy of her house, and echoes of her life in Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’

      woman standing by door to vast, airy room with wood floors and abstract Willem de Kooning artwork on the wall
    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      Private equity
      There are risks lurking in the world of private capital

      A recent court ruling against SEC reforms of the sector is an unfortunate blow to transparency and fairness

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a New Orleans map that protrudes from an elephant as if it is the trunk
    • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
      Currencies
      There is currency stress on the horizon

      But this may not be obvious to investors who cut their teeth in the past decade

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a close-up of a panda’s face behind bamboo in the shape of the renminbi
    • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
      Supply chains
      Forget macro and micro, it’s mesoeconomics that matters

      Understanding networks properly will help us to better grasp how the economy actually works

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a sphere of solid state circuits rolling towards an economist who is standing in its path.
    • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
      Social Media
      There is a new twist in the TikTok tale

      A ‘people’s bid’ for the app raises profound questions about how we live online

      Illustration of the US Capitol building with the TikTok logo colours
    • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
      Oil
      Regulators at last have oil-price fixing in their sights

      The FTC’s ruling on Exxon-Pioneer deal shines a spotlight on the workings of Opec and industry executives

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a whirlpool eating up dollar coins and bills inside an oil barrel.
    • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
      Global trade
      How to tell good industrial policy from bad

      Experience shows that encouraging exports rather than slapping tariffs on imports works best

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of industrial buildings and funnels are shaping a thump up hand and a thump down hand for good and bad industrial policies.
    • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Lessons for investors from the history of war finance

      Governments rarely tell voters the true cost of military adventures, or how they intend to pay for them

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of dollar bills crushed on a military helmet as camouflage cover
    • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
      Cyber Security
      Companies must rethink how they handle cyber risk

      As threats morph, the cultural objections to working with the government need to change too

      An illustration of a bomb with ones and zeroes
    • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
      US interest rates
      What eight centuries of data tell us about interest rates

      Research suggests that these have long been in steady decline

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Benjamin Franklin with a mouth full of air referring to inflation in the US.
    • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
      Behavioural economics
      Snickers wars reveal the enduring perversity of human behaviour

      Market failures occur because consumers are not the all-knowing rational agents that appear in economic models

      Illustration of a long receipt shaped like a snake spitting numbers, ready to attack
    • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
      Cryptocurrencies
      Crypto lobbyists are on manoeuvres — and we should be worried

      The scale of the campaign the industry is unleashing ahead of the US election is striking

      Illustration of a closeup of a phoenix’s face with red feathers and and a bitcoin for an eye
    • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
      Property sector
      It’s time to be honest about America’s commercial real estate hangover

      The ‘pretend and extend’ tactics playing out in the sector need to end

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of price tags shaped as office buildings
    • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
      US economy
      What TikTok tells us about the paradox of markets right now

      From geopolitical risk to capricious US decision-making, investors face uncertain times

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Donald Trump’s hair in the shape of a TikTok logo.
    • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
      Sovereign bonds
      A rotten system for sovereign debt restructuring needs fixing

      The state of New York is right to push for reform, despite objections from Wall Street

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of an apple with a small hole is placed on the one side of a law scale. On the other side we can see a worm.
    • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
      US financial regulation
      Green audits are coming for a company near you

      American companies are trying to head off the introduction of strict rules like those imposed in the EU

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of an economy arrow shaped like a branch. Birds are sitting on both sides of it, up and down.
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      Make sure your brain has a diverse portfolio too

      Students find shelter from the AI storm by taking joint degrees that help make them adaptable to a shifting jobs market

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of two-degree scroll tied together with a red ribbon
    • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
      Financial services
      Private equity ignores protests at its peril

      Years of cheap money have created a bubble that risks provoking a backlash even from beneficiaries

      Illustration of a pie cut into slices with a fence all around it and a padlocked gate
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      Lessons from finance in the battle against deepfakes

      Policymakers should look at the long history of the fight against counterfeit money

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Benjamin Franklin appearing with open mouth displaying a fake dollar bill
    • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
      Chinese economy
      China needs to learn lessons from 1990s Japan

      There are mistakes that policymakers in Beijing should avoid when grappling with a property crisis

      Illustration of a plastic shopping bag with a yellow sad face on it and full of buildings/properties
    • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
      Central banks
      Will politics or economics win out in 2024?

      The belief that demand cycles trump supply-side issues needs updating

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of an economy rate chart as half of a knife’s blade. A logo of Federal reserve is visible on the handle of the knife.
    • Friday, 19 January, 2024
      Moral Money
      The top takeaways from this year’s World Economic Forum Premium content

      AI and critical minerals were high on the agenda

      The World Economic Forum logo
    • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
      Artificial intelligence
      For all our fear of AI dystopia, it may help to level up society

      The inclusive vision for the technology put forward by will.i.am makes a nice change

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of the lines of a pentagram appearing on Will.I.am glasses, leading to tech/AI lines.
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