Gillian Tett

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Gillian Tett (2017)

Gillian Tett (born July 10, 1967 ) is a British business journalist and author. She is (in 2015) US Managing Editor and Markets and Finance columnist for the Financial Times .

Life

Tett attended North London Collegiate School in the Edgware borough of London . She graduated from Clare College , University of Cambridge . She did her PhD at Cambridge in Social anthropology on family structures in Tajikistan , for which she did field research and stayed for a year in a village among the Tajiks . But then she gave up her academic career. Tett began in 1993 as the Financial Times correspondent for the countries of the former Soviet Union . In 1997 she went to Tokyo , where she became an office managerrise. On her assignment in Japan she wrote the study Saving the Sun , focusing on the crisis of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), the traditional behavior of its managers and on the takeover by Timothy Collins and the conversion to Shinsei Bank using social anthropological methods with 200 interviews. In 2003 she was entrusted with the editing of the “Lex column” on page 2 of the Financial Times. Tett was then alternately "US managing editor", then assistant editor and columnist , and then again US managing editor.

In 2005 she began using social science methods to investigate the corporate culture at the JP Morgan bank and in 2006 came to the conclusion that the major bank had created financial instruments that lacked any economic basis and that could cause severe economic dislocations. She therefore predicted a financial crisis . In 2009 she examined the actual course of the financial crisis in her book Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe . The book has received numerous reviews and in 2009 received the Spear's Book Award for a financial work from Spear's Wealth Management Survey . Tett took part in the realization of the documentary Inside Job in 2010 .

In 2010, The Daily Beast website named Tett "a highly influential journalist." At Columbia University she was appointed to the Advisory Board for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. In 2015, she interviewed General Secretary Ban Ki-moon .

Tett is a single parent of two daughters. In 2015, she took a stand on the US dispute over the assessment of rape cases on campus , on the related legislative initiatives, and promoted the film The Hunting Ground and the song Till It Happens to You by Lady Gaga .

Awards

Tett was named "Senior Financial Journalist of the Year" by the Wincott Awards in 2007, and the British Press Awards made her "Business Journalist of the Year" in 2008 and "Journalist of the Year" in 2009. In 2011 she received a President's Medal from the British Academy . In 2012, her article "Madoff spins his story" was recognized as best feature by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). In 2014, Tett was named Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

2013 she became the honorary doctor of the College Baruch the City University of New York appointed.

Fonts

  • The silo effect: the peril of expertise and the promise of breaking down barriers . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015
  • Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe . London: Little, Brown, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4087-0164-5
    • Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dreams of a Small Tribe at JP Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe . New York: Free Press, 2009
  • Saving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions . New York: HarperBusiness, 2003 ISBN 978-0-06-055425-5
  • Ambiguous alliances: marriage and identity in a Muslim village in Soviet Tajikistan . University of Cambridge, 1996. Dissertation University of Cambridge 1996

Web links

Commons : Gillian Tett  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laura Barton: On the money , The Guardian . October 31, 2008. Accessed September 10, 2015. 
  2. ↑ Financial Times appoints Gillian Tett US managing editor . In: Financial Times . Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ Gillian Tett profile . In: Financial Times . Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ Gillian Tett: Saving the Sun , 2003, p. 322
  5. ^ Brian McKenna: Bestselling Anthropologist "Predicted" Financial Meltdown of 2008 , in: Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter (2011)
  6. ^ Andrew Allentuck: Imaginary money , The Globe and Mail . July 3, 2009. Accessed September 10, 2015. 
  7. ^ Paul M. Barrett: Rewriting the Rules , The New York Times . June 12, 2009. Accessed September 10, 2015. 
  8. ^ D. Murali: Money, a vital fluid that must flow freely , The Hindu . July 19, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2015. 
  9. ^ Ruth Sunderland: They had parties, we got the hangover , The Guardian . June 7, 2009. Accessed September 10, 2015. 
  10. ↑ Stephen Foley:Fool's Gold, By Gillian Tett. How the geeks broke the banks., The Independent . May 1, 2009. Accessed September 10, 2015. 
  11. ↑ Spear's Book Awards: Winners . Spear's Wealth Management Survey . Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spearswms.com
  12. ↑ The Most Powerful Woman in Newspapers? . In: The Daily Beast . Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ Gillian Tett: "I'm an easy scapegoat" , Interview, in: FT, September 19, 2015, p. 3
  14. ↑ Gillian Tett: The risks of campuses need to be aired , in: FT, August 29, 2015, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Tett, Gillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1967