Gillian Tett to deliver inaugural Adams Lecture

Wolfson is pleased to announce that Dr Gillian Tett, the author, journalist, and Provost of King’s College Cambridge, will give the College’s inaugural Adams Lecture on Thursday 23 October.

The lecture has been established thanks to a generous gift from Honorary Fellow John W. Adams and his wife Lizabeth and will be given each year at Wolfson on a legal or political theme. It joins the College’s three long-established named lectures: the Syme (Roman history), the Haldane (sciences) and the Berlin (the history of ideas). The Adams Lecture is organized in conjunction with Wolfson’s Law In Societies cluster.

Wolfson’s President, Sir Tim Hitchens, said “We’re delighted to inaugurate this new lecture series with a talk by Gillian Tett. Her understanding of the world of finance, as well as her insights into human behaviour, are the perfect way to kick off the Adams Lectures.”

Gillian Tett was appointed Provost of King’s College Cambridge in October 2023. An acclaimed journalist, she has had a thirty-year career at the Financial Times, where she continues to write regular columns. Her books include Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe (2009), which won the Financial Book of the Year award.