Event Details
Gillian will discuss one of the most debated topics at present: “The 2007 Financial Crisis: How Bad, How Deep; What Previous Crises Teach Us and What We May Expect Going Forward." Due to Gillian’s position in the business information flow and exposure to CEO of global banks/corporations, this will be a unique opportunity to further enhance our comprehension of current events (compared to previous banking crises) and to shade some light on what 2008 and following years may look like.
Program
7:45 AM-9:00 AM: Breakfast and Program
Speaker Profiles
Gillian Tett (Speaker)
Assistant Editor, Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/home/uk
Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times and oversees the global coverage of the financial markets. In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital markets coverage. She was also shortlisted for the British business journalist of the year award.
She joined the FT in 1993 and worked in the former Soviet Union and Europe, and in the economics team. In 1997 she was posted to Tokyo where she became the bureau chief, before returning in 2003 to become deputy head of the Lex column. She is the author of Saving the Sun; How Wall Street mavericks shook up Japan’s financial system and made billions (Harper Collins and Random House).
Gillian Tett has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University, based on research conducted in the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. She speaks French, Russian, moderate Japanese and Persian.