About Gillian Tett
Gillian Romaine Tett is a British author and journalist who serves as a member of the editorial board for the Financial Times and provost of King's College, Cambridge. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. Tett co-founded Moral Money, the paper's sustainability newsletter. She was subsequently awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in social anthropology in 1996 for field research in Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union. 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. The book was widely reviewed throughout the English-speaking world and won the Spear's Book Award for the financial book of 2009.
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