Gillian Tett

Financial Times columnist and editorial board member, and Provost of King's College, Cambridge; trained as a social anthropologist.

Fool's Gold follows credit derivatives from the J.P. Morgan team that designed them to the losses of 2008, showing how an instrument built to transfer risk was used instead to add leverage. The Silo Effect applies anthropological fieldwork to organisations, examining why specialised teams inside banks and technology firms stop passing information to each other.

3 books of their own