Gillian
Tett

Journalist and non-fiction writer


Gillian Tett is the chairman of the US editorial board and editor-at-large at the Financial Times. Perhaps best known for predicting the 2007-8 financial crisis, Tett's bestselling book Fool's Gold was one of the definitive books on the crash.

Gillian holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied marriage rituals in Tajikistan. Her work for the Financial Times has taken her around the world — from Brussels to Tokyo to Moscow to New York — and won her numerous awards, including Columnist, Journalist and Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

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The author excels at recreating this fevered environment. She also deciphers Wall Street mumbo-jumbo in terms that a lay reader...can understand.

The New York Times
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Tett's blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls back the curtain on a closed, unaccountable world of finance.

Guardian
on Fool's Gold