Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times and oversees their global coverage of the financial markets. Her previous assignments at the Financial Times have included deputy head of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and coverage of the former Soviet Union and Europe. Ms. Tett is the author of Saving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook up Japan’s Financial World and Made Billions. She received the Wincott prize for her capital markets coverage in 2007. Ms. Tett holds a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University.

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