Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett is an award-winning journalist and author of two books: Saving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial System and Made Billions (HarperCollins US and Random House UK 2003) and Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little, Brown UK and Simon & Schuster US 2009).

With a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and fluency in several foreign languages, in 1994 Tett graduated quickly from internship to staff writer at the Financial Times via their trainee programme, working in the Foreign and Economics departments. Since then she has worked all over the world for the Financial Times, and is now their Assistant Editor and the US Managing Editor.

Tett is the recipient of numerous awards for her journalism, including the Wincott Prize for financial journalism (2007) and the British Business Journalist of the Year (2008).