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Gillian Tett

Columnist and member of the editorial board

Gillian Tett is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, ran Moral Money, the FT's sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, and wrote two columns a week. Gillian's earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT; assistant editor; capital markets editor; deputy editor of the Lex column; Tokyo bureau chief; reporter in Russia and Brussels.

She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America's Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling and award-winning author of four books, and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science. She has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith's, London in the UK.

Email Gillian Tett @gilliantett  on X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Global Economy
    Introducing: The Story of Money

    A new video podcast from The FT exploring the history of finance

    Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    The Weekend Essay
    Why markets are surging in spite of war

    Even amid a supply shock, tech stocks continue to drive indices higher. Is the optimism justified?

    A drawing of two high-rise cities separated by sea, one of them vibrant and flourishing, the other rundown and grim.
  • Friday, 1 May, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    How bots could help revive democracy

    New AI tools encouraging deliberation could promote consensus and reduce polarisation in politics

    Gillian Tett
    Illustration of a giant robot hand trying to stop three toppling pillars of democracy crashing into the last pillar still standing
  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
    The Story of Money podcast54 min listen
    Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

    How a truly transformative technology can still cause a financial crash

  • Friday, 24 April, 2026
    Federal Reserve
    The danger of weaponising dollar swap lines

    Putative Fed chair Kevin Warsh could embrace Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s geoeconomic agenda

    Gillian Tett
    Illustration of the White House depicted with an open mouth bearing teeth with symbols representing the Federal Reserve building inside in the mouth
  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    Global Economy
    The Big Read. Six lessons from history’s greatest financial crises

    The Babylonians had debt defaults. The S&L scandal led to 2008. What else does the past tell us?

    Montage image of a $100 bill, traders on Black Monday and a clay tablet
  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    The Story of Money podcast43 min listen
    How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

    What we can – and can’t – learn from the practice of mass debt relief

  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    The Story of Money podcast39 min listen
    They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?

    How luminaries of the past managed their investment portfolios

  • Friday, 17 April, 2026
    Global Economy
    Welcome to the age of hoarding

    As global economic uncertainty mounts, stockpiling is back

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration of a squirrel holding a black oil drop while sitting atop a large pile of acorns.
  • Friday, 10 April, 2026
    Global Economy
    Six lessons for investors on pricing disaster

    Buy The Dip mantras ignore the fact that not all US market vulnerabilities have been accounted for

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration of Donald Trump’s red tie transforming into a rising economic trend line with an upward arrow
  • Friday, 3 April, 2026
    US Treasury bonds
    What’s going on with dollar debt?

    ‘Swap’ trades by hedge funds have exploded recently

    Gillian Tett
  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Global Economy
    Molecules are taking their revenge on services

    Capital-intensive industries matter in the age of the Halo trade

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing maps of China, South Korea, and Japan formed by smoke rising from factory chimneys against a red background
  • Friday, 20 March, 2026
    Insurance
    The war over tail risks is in full swing

    Trump’s financial fight with insurers will affect business confidence as much as the kinetic battle

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing Donald Trump as Atlas, struggling to hold up a large cargo ship as shipping containers tumble overboard.
  • Friday, 13 March, 2026
    Economy
    Should investors worry about a 2008-style shock?

    From Iran to private credit, things are unnerving but the wider financial system is better prepared

    Gillian Tett
    A pink piggy bank covered in black stains, stuck in an oil puddle, with several cockroaches crawling on its surface
  • Friday, 6 March, 2026
    US politics & policy
    Why Trump won’t clean up his own mess

    Chaos and instability are a feature, not a bug, of the US president’s approach to foreign policy

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing numerous white mice with red eyes swarming over the White House, creating a chaotic and messy scene.
  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
    Artificial intelligence
    Power failure could undermine America’s AI ambitions

    Spiralling electricity demand threatens to hold the US back in its technological race with China

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration of a pylon tower designed to resemble a robot, with mechanical hands and a face, holding power lines.
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    Global Economy
    Reasons to worry about America’s investment position with the rest of the world

    Data shows that our global financial system is plagued with serious but often ignored imbalances

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing a flock of migratory birds flying in a formation that resembles a dollar sign against an orange sky
  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    Cryptocurrencies
    Crypto’s battle with the banks is splitting Trump’s base

    A fight over stablecoin rules is really about whether deposits at major financial institutions will disappear

    Gillian Tett
    A UFO-like stablecoin hovers over a building that features classical pillars, drawing it up in a tractor beam
  • Friday, 6 February, 2026
    US politics & policy
    Trump and the normalisation of deviance

    Allowing dangerous behaviour to become the norm desensitises us, paving the way for disaster

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing golden dollar coins spilling from a cracked stone column, with a man in a suit and black shoes sitting on top.
  • Friday, 30 January, 2026
    Currencies
    Europe needs to put its money where its mouth is

    Tussles over what to put on euro banknotes are symbolic of deeper dysfunction

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing a 50 euro banknote with Marie Curie’s silhouette as a cut-out on the right side.
  • Friday, 23 January, 2026
    World Economic Forum
    What business should be thinking about post-Davos

    Ignoring the upside can be as dangerous as discounting the downside

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing Donald Trump wearing boxing gloves and punching a hanging cargo container as if it were a punching bag
  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    Japanese economy
    Why Japan’s fiscal paradox matters

    The country is the darling of investors, but that could change

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing a red map of Japan above underwater coral and sea creatures, including a seahorse, referencing the map's seahorse-like shape
  • Friday, 9 January, 2026
    Global Economy
    What lies behind Trump’s retro oil plundering?

    Doubling down on fossil fuels threatens to leave the US floundering in the AI race with China

    Gillian Tett
    Illustration of a ‘nodding donkey’ oil pumpjack where the head of the mechanism has been replaced by a knuckle duster
  • Friday, 2 January, 2026
    Geopolitics
    Why we should know what we don’t know

    Cognitive blind spots are undermining our ability to see the world as it is, rather than as we would like it to be

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing a red scarf shaped like an upward economic arrow, partially covering one of two eyes on a black background.
  • Friday, 2 January, 2026
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Predicting 2026: Will the Magnificent 7 tech stocks continue to diverge?

    Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett predicted that the Magnificent 7 tech stocks …

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