Gillian Tett – US Managing Editor and member of Editorial Board at the Financial Times, author of Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, 2009 about the highly leveraged financial instruments traded prior to 2008. Gillian analyses the anthropology of decision making and stresses the importance of avoiding group think in business and in economics. Gillian’s recent book is The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, 2015. We talk to Gillian about why, despite their potential to accelerate development, local governments are often ignored by global and national decision makers when formulating economic development policy.