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    Gillian Tett

    Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, US

    Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues and co-founded Moral Money, the FT sustainability newsletter.

    She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America's Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling author and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science.

    Tett’s past roles at the FT have included US managing editor, assistant editor, capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

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      It must be made easier for regulators to act intelligently and independently

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      The race to save Ukraine’s abducted children

      The plight of those taken to Russia without their families’ consent has received comparatively little attention

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      Our domestic habits can reveal a lot about society’s values

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