Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett oversees global coverage of the financial markets for the Financial Times, the world's leading newspaper covering the financial markets. In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital markets coverage. She was also shortlisted for the British business journalist of the year award. She previously served as the newspaper's acting head of the Lex column (an agenda-setting column on business and financial topics), the Tokyo bureau chief, economic correspondent, and foreign correspondent. She also sits on an advisory panel on financial regulation at the London School of Economics, is an associate fellow of finance at Westminster University, and an advisor to the main accountancy body in the UK. She speaks regularly at conferences around the world on finance and global markets, most recently holding audiences at the San Francisco Federal Reserve, the European Parliament, and the London School of Economics. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.