Speech Day
Gillian Tett
9.30am, Saturday 12 November 2011
Speaker details
Gillian Tett is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper’s US edition and of US news on FT.com.
Previously, Tett was assistant editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage. She has also served as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.
Tett was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) at the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) at the Wincott Awards.
She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards in 2009.
Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Tett was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the PhD, she freelanced for the FT and the BBC. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
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