Krug Mindshare Auction benefits MRF
12 November 2009
Deputy Editor of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett raised £2,600 for the Foundation at the inaugural Krug Mind Share charity auction.
Taking place at Christies, and in association with the Financial Times, the Krug Mind Share Auction brought together first-class minds from the fields of business, finance, the arts,
design, music and entertainment all of whom were willing to aution their minds for charity in the form of a 60 minute private audience with the winning bidder.
MRF Member Gillian was joined in the acution by Sir Philip
Green, Sir Salman Rushdie, Arsene Wenger, Natalie Massenet, Sir Martin
Sorrell, Nicholas Candy, Lang Lang, Gillian Tett, Judy Craymer, Arsene
Wenger and Jancis Robinson.
Gillian selected MRF as the beneficiary of her auction, as, whilst in Singapore, Gillian contracted W135 meningococcal meningitis. Making a full recovery, she has supported the charity since 2002.
Gillian is the Deputy Editor of the Financial Times and oversees the global coverage of the financial markets. In March 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In June 2009 her book
Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.
In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital markets coverage. She was named British Business Journalist of the Year in 2008.
She joined the FT in 1993 and worked in the former Soviet Union and Europe, and in the economics team. In 1997 she was posted to Tokyo where she became the bureau chief, before returning in 2003 to become deputy head of the Lex column. She is the author of
Saving the Sun; How Wall Street mavericks shook up Japan’s financial system and made billions (Harper Collins and Random House).