Krug Mindshare Benefit Auction to raise funds to support Meningitis Research Foundation

30 October 2009

Where: Christies, 8 King Street, St. James’s, London
When: 5 November 2009, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

The inaugural Krug Mind Share charity auction, in association with the Financial Times, will take place at Christie’s on 5 November 2009. The project was born out of a desire to give people the opportunity to share their most treasured commodity, their mind, for the benefit of charity.

The campaign brings together first-class minds from the fields of business, finance, the arts, design, music and entertainment. Leaders in their field, 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, have all generously agreed to auction their mind for a charity of their choice, sharing their intellectual property for 60 minutes at a private audience with the winning bidder.

Gillian Tett  as a longstanding member of MRF has selected us as the beneficiary.  Whilst in Singapore, Gillian contracted W135 meningococcal meningitis. Making a full recovery, she has supported the charity since 2002.

Gillain 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).

Gillian Tett has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University, based on research conducted in the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. She speaks French, Russian, moderate Japanese and Persian.


For more information on the auction, or to place a bid please visit www.krugmindshare.com. Online bidding will end at midday on Monday, 2 November 2009.