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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)
              • 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
              • 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
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