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Gillian Tett Chair of editorial board and editor-at-large, US, Provost Elect, Kings College, Cambridge Gillian Tett serves as the chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. From October 1 2023 she will become a weekly columnist for the FT while also serving as Provost of Kings College, Cambridge University in the UK. In her current role she has been writing weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues, and co-founded FT Moral Money, a thrice weekly newsletter that tracks the ESG revolution in business. Tett was the FT’s US managing editor from 2013 to 2019. She has also served as FT’s financial editor, capital markets editor, acting editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. Tett is the author of Anthro-Vision, A New Way to See Life and Business published in 2021, which won the Porchlight best business book award and the Columbia Business School Eccles prize. She is also the author of The Silo Effect (2015); Fool’s Gold (2009), a New York Times best seller and Saving the Sun (2003). Tett has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009), Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in British Press awards and won three American SABEW awards. She has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. She was awarded the American Anthropological Association President’s 2021 medal and the 2009 British Academy President medal for her work in social sciences and has received honorary degrees from the University of Exeter, the University of Miami, St Andrew’s, London University (Goldsmiths), Carnegie Mellon, Baruch and an honorary doctorate from Lancaster University in the UK. She is a CFA fellow in the UK.
