Financial Times — Past Speakers

Gillian Tett is chairman 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.

In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. Her other honors include a SABEW Award for best feature article (2012), President’s Medal by the British Academy (2011), being recognized as Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) by the British Press Awards, and as Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.

Twitter: @gilliantett

Moral Money: why investors should pay attention to ESG, Financial Times, June 19, 2019

Gillian Tett: Ethical investing has reached a tipping point, Financial Times, June 19, 2019

Robin Wigglesworth

US Markets Editor at the *Financial Times*

Robin Wigglesworth is a NYC-based US markets editor for the Financial Times. He covers stocks, bonds, commodities, foreign exchange, derivatives, wealth management, stock exchanges and fund management. He was formerly capital markets correspondent, covering all aspects of the financial markets, but is particularly focused on trends in corporate debt, IPOs, equity markets, restructurings, and emerging markets. Prior to this role, he was the Financial Times’ Gulf correspondent for three years, where his work ranged from front-line coverage of the revolts in Libya and Bahrain, to Dubai’s financial crisis, regional politics and the Gulf’s ongoing efforts to diversify their economies. Before joining the FT in 2008, Wigglesworth covered the Nordic economies, politics, bond and currencies for Bloomberg News. He has an MA in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics, where his specialism was political Islam, a BA in Journalism and contemporary history from City University, and studied economics at the Oslo School of Management.

Twitter: @RobinWigg

FT Reporters, ‘How serious is Trump’s latest tariff threat against Mexico?’, Financial Times, 2 June 2019