Guest: Dr Gillian Tett

Date and Time: 4 Oct 2022, 18:00 BST

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About the Event:

Dr Gillian Tett (Editor-at-large at Financial Times and author of 4 books) will join us to discuss her latest book - AnthroVision, a New Way to See in Life and Business. It concerns the behaviour of organizations, individuals, and markets by looking through an anthropological lens. Nobel-prize winner Daniel Kahneman called AnthroVision "a really brilliant book”.

Speaker Biography:

Dr Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and the editor-at-large USA, Financial Times. She is an author and journalist who writes weekly columns covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.  

In 2006, in the middle of her ethnographic research on JP Morgan (carried out in 2005-2007), Dr Tett predicted the 2008 financial crisis, uncovering the insular culture which lead to the creation of financial instruments that had little basis and could cause severe economic disruption. This experience was later recounted in her book Fool's Gold (2009), winner of the Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards, which in turn led to Tett being featured in the film ‘Inside Job’, winner of the 2011 Academy Award for the Best Documentary Feature.

In 2014, Dr Tett was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. Her other books include 'The Silo Effect' (2015) and 'AnthroVision, a New Way to See in Life and Business' (2021).

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. Tett went to Clare College, University of Cambridge, where she earned a PhD in Social Anthropology.

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