Gillian Tett is an eminent author and journalist, and has been Provost of King's College, Cambridge since 2023. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, based on research conducted in the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Her outstanding journalistic work covers a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.

She was previously Chair of the US Editorial Board and America Editor-at-Large at the Financial Times. Alongside her role as Provost, she continues to write a weekly column and is a member of the editorial board for the FT. Her work covering the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 received extensive media attention for its prescient coverage of the financial instruments that led to the crisis.

Gillian has received many awards in recognition of her work, including Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Financial Journalist of the Year (2008) at the British Press Awards; the British Academy President's Medal (2011); and the American Anthropological Association President's Medal (2022). She was appointed OBE in the 2024 New Year's Honours for services to economic journalism.

She has published a number of books, including Anthro-Vision, a New Way to See in Life and Business, published in June 2021, which concerns the behaviour of organisations, individuals, and markets by looking through an anthropological lens.