In 2023, Gillian Tett was elected to serve as Provost to King’s College, Cambridge.

Gillian also writes weekly columns covering economic, financial, political, and social issues for the US Financia Times and is the co-founder of FT Moral Money, a newsletter that tracks the ESG revolution in business and finance.

From 2013 to 2019, Tett was the FT’s US Managing Editor, also serving as Assistant Editor for the FT’s markets coverage, Capital Markets Editor, Deputy Editor of the Lex column, Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

Before joining the FT, Gillian was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge and in 2024, was awarded an OBE for her services to journalism.