Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett has served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge since October 2023. As an author and journalist, she has become an important voice in international economics. She is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large of the Financial Times for the United States. Her weekly columns cover a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.

She has also written about the financial instruments that were part of the cause of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. She was prescient in giving early warning that the financial crisis was looming. Tett has written four books including Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, which won the Spear’s Book Award for the financial book of 2009.