Nils Gilman

Name: Paris Peace Forum 2025
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Berggruen Institute

Senior Vice President of Programs, Berggruen Institute

Description

Nils Gilman is Executive Editor of the Berggruen Press and Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine. He has previously worked as Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, as Research Director and scenario planner at the Monitor Group and GBN, and at various enterprise software companies including Salesforce.com. An intellectual historian by training and a futurist by avocation, he is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004) and Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (2024). He holds a Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate in History from U.C. Berkeley.