Our Guest Speaker this month is Gillian Tett the award-winning Financial Times journalist and editorial board member. Gillian writes a weekly column covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. Her previous roles at the FT included Chair of the FT editorial board, running Moral Money, the FT’s sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, US Managing Editor, Assistant Editor, Capital Markets Editor, Deputy Editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. She also serves as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge.
Gillian 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 has received three awards from America’s Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. A best-selling author of four books, she has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith’s, London in the UK.
Gillian will talk about her career as a journalist, the outcome of the US Presidential election, including the impact on the UK and the EU, and her work as Provost of King’s College Cambridge.
Tentative schedule of the day:
9:30am – 10:45am: Registration, tea/coffee, Activity Leader tables;
10:50am: Members invited to take a seat in the auditorium;
11:00am: Introductions;
11:10am: Guest Speaker;
12:05pm: Q&A
12:20pm: President’s announcements;
12:30pm: Meeting conclusion;
12:45pm: Hospitality lunch (details tbc).
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