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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 Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
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    Gillian Tett: ‘Why I wore white to my wedding’

    The FT columnist told herself she wouldn’t bow to custom when it came to her dress. What changed her mind?

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    Gillian Tett on her wedding day
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Supply chains
    Tariffs ignore the reality of global tech supply chains

    Nvidia has become a symbol of the looming business nightmare unleashed by Donald Trump

    A futuristic green shipping container with circuit-like patterns and glowing panels, resembling a high-tech data or energy storage unit
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    US economy
    Trump tests the American attitude to pain

    It’s not just bread and circuses any more

    Illustration of the US Capitol building with big-top circus tents on either side
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Instant InsightUS Treasury bonds
    What is behind the Treasury sell-off?

    The double whammy of falling bond and equity prices could partly be hedge funds unwinding so-called ‘basis trades’

    President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    How to make sense of Donald Trump’s tariffs

    The new field of ‘geoeconomics’ offers a guide for the perplexed

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Donald Trump’s hand flipping a golden coin, with its face as a map of the Earth
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Oil
    The Trump plan for oil

    Some advisers now view the price of the fossil fuel as a crucial anti-inflation tool

    A drawing of an oil rig spouting oil in the shape of Donald Trump’s face
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Geopolitics
    Why a weight-loss drug could become a geopolitical bargaining chip

    Ozempic might feature in US negotiations with Denmark over Greenland

    Illustration of a blue Ozempic syringe standing upright and casting a shadow of a red assault rifle set against a black background
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast18 min listen
    Swamp Notes: Why Trump may want a weaker dollar

    The US currency is down. Does President Donald Trump and his team want it that way?

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    US trade
    Tariffs on goods may be a prelude to tariffs on money

    Capital inflows could be the Trump administration’s next target

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of the US map as a price tag
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    US economy
    What a Mar-a-Lago accord could look like

    Trump’s team consider financial policy interventions to be crucial in a grand reordering of global finance and trade

    Illustration of a dollar symbol with a screw on it being turned. A second and third image show the dollar symbol falling on to its side
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    US economy
    Why investors should be worrying about Trump and impoundment

    The buzzword looks set to become a weapon in the budget wars

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a muzzled piggy bank. The front part of the golden muzzle shapes dollar signs.
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    US dollar
    How Washington plans to defend the dollar

    Trade tariffs grab headlines but the less-visible fight around money matters deeply to the president

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of three ice-cream cones, one with the euro sign, one with the dollar sign and one with the renminbi sign
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Geopolitics
    Smaller countries learn to hedge their bets in the age of Trump

    This is a world in which no one can ‘price’ peace any more

    Illustration of Trump’s face as the biggest country on the planet, threatening the rest
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Gold
    Gold glitters as the unimaginable becomes imaginable

    The US president wants to weaken the dollar while preserving its exorbitant privilege

    Illustration of a giant gold safe shaped like the USA
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Musk is right — US government badly needs a digital makeover

    If he can drive the change that’s required, future generations will thank him

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of the US Capitol building shaped by multiple internet pages making a comment on America’s e-government.
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Moral Money
    How the Davos crowd responded to Trump’s return Premium content

    Business leaders are worried about climate shocks, but leery of phrases such as ‘green transition’

    Attendees at Davos watch a large video screen as it plays a virtual speech delivered by US President Donald Trump
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Five ways to fix the knowledge crisis in the age of Trump

    Elites must not be complacent about a widening epistemological gulf which threatens democracy

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of people walking on a classical Greek column to cross over hole in the firmament. On the background other people have already fallen into the holes.
  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
    Moral Money
    Trump return casts shadow over Davos climate talk Premium content

    World Economic Forum members voice concern over environmental risks

    People hold banners with slogans including ‘WORLD EXPLOITATION FORUM’ at a protest in Davos, Switzerland
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    US Treasury bonds
    The bond markets vs Donald Trump

    There is a notable — and rising — risk of financial turmoil if the new White House does anything to spook investors

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of economic graph lines shaping the rooftops of houses, with a full moon in the background.
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    US dollar
    Dollar dominance means tariffs are not the only game in town

    America’s grip on global financial services could provide Trump with another source of leverage

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Trump wearing a crown made of dollar bills.
  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    The Weekend Essay
    ‘That is Maganomics’: where Trump is taking America on trade

    Maverick economist turned presidential adviser Peter Navarro has helped bring back a world in which power takes precedence over economic exchange. Will he prove his critics wrong?

    A US flag flies in front of huge metal structures in the background
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    We need to think again about what the ‘A’ in AI signifies

    Looking at the technology through a different cultural lens casts its threat and promise in a new light

    Illustration of a robot made out of brightly wrapped boxes with red ribbons around them
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    US budget
    A fiscal fight is brewing in the court of Donald Trump

    America’s debt pile and the case for tax cuts will be flashpoints inside the new administration

    An elephant’s foot hovers over a tiny red Lego elephant
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    US economy
    The chain of contradictions in Trump’s economic policy

    His team is promising high growth, low inflation and control of government spending — all at once

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Trump’s profile overlayed by a labyrinth.
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Mainstream memecoins signal changing markets

    Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Peanut the squirrel appearing in a ghostly atmosphere wearing his hat while his tail is in the shape of a dollar sign.
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