Pi Lunch with Gillian Tett - Assistant Editor of the FT
Wednesday 18th November 12:30pm, Mayfair

Gillian Tett is assistant editor of the Financial Times and oversees the newspaper’s global coverage of the financial markets.  She is one of the world’s pre-eminent authorities on capital markets and the role they play in the global financial crisis, and is widely credited with being the first to cover the credit crunch in the mainstream press.  Gillian Tett has recently won the British Press Award for Journalist of the Year.  Last year she was Financial Journalist of the Year and in 2007 was awarded the Wincott Prize for her capital markets coverage.  Gillian Tett joined the FT in 1992 and initially worked in the former Soviet Union and Europe.  She later joined the economics team and in 1997 was posted to Tokyo.  Here she became FT bureau chief and wrote her first book, Saving the Sun: how Wall Street mavericks shook up Japan’s financial system and made billions. Her second book has just been published.  Fool’s Gold: how unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe is the gripping tale of how a team of Wall Street bankers created the world of ’shadow banking’, and then lost control of their creation.   Gillian Tett has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. She speaks French, Russian, moderate Japanese and Persian.

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Kate Lewis

kl@picapital.co.uk

020 7529 5664