Gillian Romaine Tett was born on 10 July 1967 and is a British author and journalist.
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Gillian Tett is the chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times.
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Gillian Tett writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues and co-founded Moral Money, the FT sustainability newsletter.
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Gillian Tett has written about the financial instruments that were part of the cause of the financial crisis that started in the fourth quarter of 2007, such as CDOs, credit default swaps, SIVs, conduits, and SPVs Gillian Tett became renowned for her early warning that a financial crisis was looming.
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Gillian Tett is to take up the post in October 2023 in succession to Professor Michael Proctor.
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Gillian Tett was educated at the North London Collegiate School, an independent school for girls in Edgware, in the London Borough of Harrow in northwest London, during which time, at the age of 17, she worked for a Pakistani nonprofit.
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Gillian Tett then undertook a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Social Anthropology based on field research in Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union.
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Gillian Tett expressed frustration with an academic anthropology that in her view has been committing "intellectual suicide" and decided instead to pursue a career in journalism.
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In 1993, Gillian Tett joined the Financial Times as a correspondent from the former Soviet Union and Europe.
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Gillian Tett was then US managing editor at the FT, before working as an assistant editor and columnist before returning to the US managing editor position.
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Gillian Tett played a significant role in the 2010 documentary Inside Job about the financial crisis of 2008.
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In 2010 Gillian Tett interviewed author Sebastian Mallaby on C-SPAN about his book More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite providing a very clear image of hedge funds.
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In February 2023, Gillian Tett was announced as the next Provost of King's College, Cambridge, ahead of her assuming the role in October 2023.