Nils Gilman is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute, where he directs the Institute’s day-to-day activities, leads its research program, and serves as Executive Editor of Berggruen Press and Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine. He has previously served as Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley; as Research Director and scenario planner at the Monitor Group and Global Business Network; and in leadership roles at enterprise software companies including Salesforce.com. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004), Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (2011), and Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (2024). He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley.
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Oral history interview with Nils Gilman, 2025 May, https://n2t.net/ark:/54723/h3f766k64