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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Gillian Tett on the Year Ahead

Politics &
Economics

What are the key trends currently shaping the world economy?

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Gillian Tett is one of the world’s most in-demand economists. An acclaimed columnist and author at the Financial Times, she has long used her training as an anthropologist to break new ground on economic affairs, notably predicting the 2007–8 financial crisis after she observed the way bankers were behaving around the world.

In October 2023 she came to the Intelligence Squared stage to explore the biggest challenges we face today with BBC broadcaster Jonny Dymond. What are the potential implications for the global economy of a second Trump presidency? Will the Conservatives be able to rein in inflation in time for next year’s general election? How fast will AI transform our lives for better and worse? And what can an anthropologist’s insights teach us about the cultural shifts driving global investments?

Tett analysed what she sees as the key trends shaping the world economy and shared her insights to help us better understand the key geopolitical and technological changes taking place in our society.

Speakers for the motion

  • Gillian Tett

    Chair of the US editorial board and US editor-at-large at the Financial Times

Chair

  • Jonny Dymond

    BBC News presenter and Royal Correspondent

Speakers are subject to change.

Speakers

Speakers

Gillian Tett

Chair of the US editorial board and US editor-at-large at the Financial Times

Chairman of the US editorial board and U.S editor-at-large at the Financial Times. She is the author of many books including Fools Gold and the new book Anthro-Vision: A New Way to see Business and Life. Gillian holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge and has won numerous awards, including Columnist, Journalist and Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. She has been elected the next Provost of King's College, Cambridge and will take office in October 2023.
Chair

Jonny Dymond

BBC News presenter and Royal Correspondent

Presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World at One and The World This Weekend and BBC World Service Radio's World Questions. He is also Royal Correspondent for BBC News. He recently presented the BBC Radio 4 series Putin, in which told the story of Vladimir Putin's life by interviewing guests who have watched, studied and dealt with the Russian president.