“We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”

Gillian Tett is one of the world's most influential interpreters of global finance and power. She is one of the few leading economists who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. In her famous 2009 book Fool's Gold, she recounts how a tightly bonded team of bankers — the "Morgan Mafia" — triggered the global recession.

Tett is a member of the editorial board and columnist at the Financial Times, where her reporting and commentary bridge economics, politics, and culture. In 2023, she was appointed Provost of King's College, Cambridge. She is the author of Fool's Gold, The Silo Effect, and Anthro-Vision.

"Absolutely brilliant" — Daniel Kahnehman