Gillian Romaine TettOBE (born 10 July 1967) is a British author and journalist. She is a member of the editorial board for the Financial Times.[3][4][5] She writes weekly columns,covering a range of economic,financial,political and social issues. Tett co-founded Moral Money,the paper's sustainability newsletter.
After leaving school,Tett studied at Clare College,Cambridge,graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Archaeology and Anthropology.[13][14] She then undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Social Anthropology based on field research in Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union.[15][16] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Ambiguous alliances:marriage and identity in a Muslim village in Soviet Tajikistan".[17] She expressed frustration with the discipline of academic anthropology which,in accordance with the prevailing postmodernism,had become so self-critical that it appeared to be committing a variety of "intellectual suicide".[9] Instead,she decided to pursue a career in journalism.[18]
Career
In 1993,Tett joined the Financial Times as a correspondent from the former Soviet Union and Europe. In 1997,she was posted to Tokyo,where she later became bureau chief.[15] In 2003,she became deputy head of the Lex column.[19][20][21][22] Tett was then U.S. managing editor at the FT,before working as an assistant editor and columnist before returning to the U.S. managing editor position.[15][23] She is also the chairwoman of the board of trustees for the Knight–Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism with Columbia University.
From 2005 to 2007,Tett conducted ethnographic research on the American banking institution J.P. Morgan and discovered that the insular culture was leading to the creation of financial instruments that had little basis and that could cause severe economic disruption. In a series of articles in the Financial Times between 2006-07,she wrote about the dangers posed by securitization and financial derivatives,and the unreliability of credit rating agencies.[24][25][26][27][9] Her 2009 book Fool's Gold:How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe recounts the lead-up to the economic crisis and the eventual collapse. She also played a significant role in the 2010 documentary Inside Job about the 2008 financial crisis.[9] The book was widely reviewed throughout the English-speaking world[28][29] and won the Spear's Book Award for the financial book of 2009.[30][31]
Anthro-Vision,a New Way to See in Life and Business,published in June 2021,concerns the behaviour of organizations,individuals,and markets by looking through an anthropological lens.[citation needed]
Saving the Sun:How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions,2004 ( ISBN978-0060554255).
Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a CatastropheISBN978-1408701645
Alternative Title: How an Ingenious Tribe of Bankers Rewrote the Rules of Finance, Made a Fortune and Survived a Catastrophe, 2009 ( ISBN978-1408701676)
Alternative Title: Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dreams of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe, 2010 ( ISBN978-1416598572)
Alternative Title: Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe, 2010 ( ISBN978-1439100134)
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, 2015 ( ISBN978-1451644739)
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life, 2021
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