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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)

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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
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      Central authorities struck a blow against libertarian entrepreneurs this week

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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
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      Do not discount the chance of a Trump return

      The former president’s team is running a slicker operation than in 2016

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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
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      After WeWork, the office is dead — long live the office

      The desk-renting start-up’s implosion ought to teach investors not to bet the future on the recent past

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    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Ransomware
      Boardroom woes on ransomware intensify

      ‘Big game hunting’ criminals are targeting corporations with deep pockets, but the White House wants them to stop paying

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    • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Good robots must not be made to learn from bad human habits

      Generative AI should follow the signals from driverless cars that behave better on the roads than we do

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    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Central banks
      That 2% inflation target may not be sacred for much longer

      Geopolitics, including the conflict in the Middle East, is complicating the calculations of interest rate-setters

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    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Moral Money
      The next phase of ESG and Moral Money Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, an environmental battle goes to France’s supreme court

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    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Supply chains
      How rising conflict is reshuffling global supply chains

      Research by the Bank for International Settlements shows goods are subject to increasingly complex delivery routes

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    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      Five lessons from today’s bond market turmoil

      There are echoes of 2007: an interconnected system is highly exposed to what is happening in a murky corner of finance

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      The new president will need private investors to back his wider list of global goals

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Ukraine
      The dilemma over transferring Russian assets to Ukraine

      There is a risk of undermining faith in dollar holdings and reducing western leverage in dealings with Moscow

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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      How regulators have relinquished their work to corporate executives Premium content

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      The race to save Ukraine’s abducted children

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      Why the ESG agenda is sputtering in Japan Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Wall Street regulators target the carbon offset market

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      Feature
      Gillian Tett: The 8 stories that have caught my attention

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    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Nuclear energy
      Nuclear power’s future is being disrupted

      Investor interest in small modular reactors is growing as demand for electricity is set to soar

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Long Covid and learning from past trauma

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