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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, 4 October, 2024
    Technology sector
    Stopping the great AI energy squeeze will need more than data centres

    Innovative solutions require joined up government, which is currently in short supply

    Illustration of the Amazon logo (curved arrow running from left to right) as the stalk of a green four-leaf clover
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Technology sector
    The US needs to act to avoid Eurosclerosis

    Draghi’s report holds lessons for America on the dangers of overregulation

    Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Populism
    Our leaders must reject revenge politics

    It’s not the lessons of 1944 that we need to learn from — but those of 1919

    Illustration of a navy speech bubble and a yellow speech bubble intersecting and the area where they cross over is a map of the world
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Insurance
    Life insurance becomes less boring with creative financial engineering

    As the Fed cuts rates, markets are rallying — but there are long-term risks from experiments

    Illustration of an umbrella with its handle resembling a snake but with the snake’s body made up of coins
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    US economy
    America has an innovation and incumbency problem

    Politicians should be taking questions of R&D and corporate power much more seriously

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a cursor with circuit diagrams across it attacking the ‘Achilles heel’ of a person who is wearing shoes styled as the US flag
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    ESG investing
    The stakeholder doctrine is flourishing despite attacks on ESG

    Corporate leaders realise they can’t ignore the social and political context in which they operate

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a megaphone blocked by a ball with Texas flag on it.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Capital markets
    Markets should beware the normalisation of threats

    Seeing multiple shocks as usual could end in disaster

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Donald Trump’s open mouth with his teeth configured as market graphs
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    US society
    The American dream needs an update

    A rejuvenated version is necessary to rebuild the shattered political centre

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of an outline of the Statue of Liberty, with a small part of the statue’s leg still visible as it appears to be vacating the outline
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The red state surprise about America’s green transition

    Initiatives like America’s Inflation Reduction Act are a first step, not a silver bullet

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of the democracy’s column shapes a wind turbine. Small insects are flying all around.
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    The QE retreat
    Market gyrations reflect fears about the unwinding of QE

    The yen carry trade is a symptom not a cause of investor anxiety

    Illustration of a red herring with dollar coins instead of scales
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Technology
    Finance should pay much more attention to undersea cables risk

    The threats to this crucial infrastructure are growing but there are possible solutions

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of sharks attacking an undersea cable, with blood  visible in the water
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Why breaking the rules is easy for Trump

    The US presidential race can be seen as a tussle between ‘universal’ and ‘situational’ views of the law

    Illustration of a parking meter as a skull
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    US economy
    What the Dutch central bank tells us about Bidenomics

    Opinion polls suggest the US economy is imploding but hard data shows something else

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of price tags replacing the columns in the White House.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    New York or London — what’s your table talk style?

    In the US, guests are expected to perform. In the UK, not so much . . .

    A dining table, viewed from above, and littered with cutlery, napkins, glasses and plates of unfinished food
  • 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
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