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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, 27 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    We need to think again about what the ‘A’ in AI signifies

    Looking at the technology through a different cultural lens casts its threat and promise in a new light

    Illustration of a robot made out of brightly wrapped boxes with red ribbons around them
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    US budget
    A fiscal fight is brewing in the court of Donald Trump

    America’s debt pile and the case for tax cuts will be flashpoints inside the new administration

    An elephant’s foot hovers over a tiny red Lego elephant
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    US economy
    The chain of contradictions in Trump’s economic policy

    His team is promising high growth, low inflation and control of government spending — all at once

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Trump’s profile overlayed by a labyrinth.
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Mainstream memecoins signal changing markets

    Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Peanut the squirrel appearing in a ghostly atmosphere wearing his hat while his tail is in the shape of a dollar sign.
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    US trade
    Markets will have to get used to Trump’s mercantilist mindset

    The next US president and his team see trade in political, rather than narrowly economic, terms

    Illustration of orange and yellow shipping containers, arranged to create an image of Trump’s face
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Global trade
    Globalisation is not dead — it’s just changed

    What happens next does not depend on the US alone, we are seeing a shift to a multipolar world

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of the Earth represented as a bird cage, with the continents shown as birds with wings
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Donald Trump
    How to trade in the Trump era

    From bitcoin to navigating the new president’s Tudor court, investors should bear the following in mind

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Trump’s hairline shaped by an economy line going up while bitcoins are shaping his golden hair.
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    US Inflation Reduction Act
    How Trump election win threatens future of Biden’s climate law

    Two years on, the Inflation Reduction Act represents the best and worst of US green policy

    A man in sunglasses speaks at a podium with the presidential seal, with rows of solar panels and greenery in the background
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump should heed Adam Smith’s lesson on markets

    The president-elect would do well to remember the role of ‘moral sentiments’

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a stick of dynamite, with its lit fuse shaped as the outline of Donald Trump
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Film
    How Hollywood ran shy of geopolitics

    Film distributors are increasingly wary of anything that might prove controversial

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Donald Trump struggling to keep open a movie clacket so it won’t crush him
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    US Treasury bonds
    Don’t be beguiled by the apparent calm reigning in US bond markets

    The outcome of the presidential election could yet cause a crisis of confidence

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a ballot box teetering on the top of a mountain-shaped graph
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Investing in Ukraine’s homegrown defence industry could help the west

    A creative approach to supporting the country would look at its military start-up scene

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a drone up in the air with its wings rotating in the shape of US dollars
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Climate change
    America’s hurricane crises should not be a surprise

    The human and financial repercussions are a wake-up call about the realities of climate change

    Illustration of a brown tornado with a yellow beak sticking out one side and black and white bald eagle feathers flying out of the twister
  • 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
  • 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.
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