Gillian Tett - Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold
Speaker: Gillian Tett
Chair: Professor Willem Buiter
This event was recorded on 30 April 2009 at the London School of Economics

Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to the devastating global credit crunch. Gillian Tett has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times for fifteen years. In 2008 she won the British Press Award for the Financial Journalist of the Year. This event marks the publication of her latest book Fool's Gold :How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe.

Gillian Tett is US managing editor and an assistant editor of the Financial Times. In her previous role, she oversaw global coverage of the financial markets. In March 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In June 2009 her book Fool's Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear's Book Awards.

In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital markets coverage. She was named British Business Journalist of the Year in 2008.

She joined the FT in 1993 and worked in the former Soviet Union and Europe, and in the economics team. In 1997 she was posted to Tokyo where she became the bureau chief, before returning in 2003 to become deputy head of the Lex column. She is the author of Saving the Sun; How Wall Street mavericks shook up Japan's financial system and made billions (Harper Collins and Random House).

Gillian Tett has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University, based on research conducted in the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. She speaks French, Russian, moderate Japanese and Persian.

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[MrJeanSarkozy]

She's actually not saying that much... repeating herself much... half disappointed. Is it because she's a beautiful woman so ppl are all like "omg she looks stunning but aslo has a brain wow perfect woman".

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[rooleybbq]

Brilliant woman. I love listening to her talk.

[llieske]

this woman is so damn intelligent it's hypnotic

[ivangrozny27]

very sexy woman with a beautiful voice

[blusterkeaton]

Yes really informative. Re a question from the audience bemoaning witch hunt, I wanted to point out that not only did the fraud dealing banksters not get the slightest bit dunked nor burned, but that we have no one, in a land of ofstensibly Equality before the law, in jail (other than Madoff) in a much bigger scandal than the S&L crisis where there were 1000 put away. Where is accountability here??

[StandUp555]

Great talk .. appreciated.