Henry Grattan Lecture - Event Postponed
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Speaker: Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times
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Date:Thursday 27 September from 6.15 to 7.30pm
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Venue: Trinity College Dublin
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed.
As part of the Henry Grattan Public Lecture Series Dr Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times, will deliver a public lecture which will explore the intersection of anthropology and the financial world.
The lecture will be chaired by Dr Donal Donovan, Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin.
Speaker Biography
Gillian Tett is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper’s US edition and of US news on FT.com.
Previously, Tett was assistant editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage. She has also served as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.
Tett was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) by the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards.
She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards in 2009.
Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Tett was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the PhD, she freelanced for the FT and the BBC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.
Chair Biography
Donal Donovan is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He was a member of the teams that produced the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland’s report in May 2010 and the Nyberg Commission’s report in April 2011, both dealing with the causes of the Irish banking crisis. Donal is a former IMF staff member (1977- 2005) before retiring as a Deputy Director. During his IMF career, he worked closely with many countries experiencing financial crises. He has contributed extensively to media discussions on the current Irish and euro debt crises and has been a member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council since mid -2011
Donal holds a B.A. in Economics from the TCD's School of Social Sciences and Philosophy and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.