Gillian Tett is Assistant Editor and Columnist for the Financial Times, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues throughout the globe. From 2010-2012, Ms. Tett served as the FT’s US managing editor, leading the editorial development of the paper’s US edition and of US news on FT.com. Prior to this, she served as Assistant Editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage, as well as Capital Markets Editor, Deputy Editor of the Lex column, Bureau Chief, Tokyo Correspondent, London-based Economics Reporters and a Reporter in Russia and Brussels.