Conversation with Gillian Tett, the new Provost of King’s

WHEN: Thursday 12 October 2023
6 pm – 6.30 pm: Wine reception in Chetwynd Room
6.30 pm – 7.30 pm: Talk in Keynes Lecture Theatre
WHERE: King's College, Cambridge

Gillian Tett is the new Provost of Kings and was a chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues and co-founded Moral Money, the FT sustainability newsletter.

She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America's Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling author and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science.

Tett’s past roles at the FT have included US managing editor, assistant editor, capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.