Gillian Tett

Provost of King's College Cambridge, journalist, author

Gillian serves as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge University, while also writing a weekly oped column for the Financial Times on global finance and business. She is a member of the FT editorial board. Before her role at Cambridge, she chaired the FT editorial board, US, and during the last decade has written two weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She co-founded FT Moral Money, and was the FT’s US managing editor from 2013 to 2019 and 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. She is the author of four books, the most recent being Anthro-Vision, A New Way to See Life and Business published in 2021. Gillian has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University and is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees both in the UK and the US.