Nils Gilman
Nils Gilman is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute, in which capacity he directs the day-to-day activities of the Institute, leads its research program, and serves as 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 Global Business Network, and at various 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 Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate in History from U.C. Berkeley.
By Nils Gilman
Planetary Summit Speakers
"The Planetary: Past Time for a New Paradigm" opening plenary by Nils Gilman
"Governing for the planet" article in Aeon
"Children of a Modest Star" published by Stanford University Press
Tomorrow’s Democracy Is Open Source
Coordinating the Supply Side: Creating a Systemic Industrial Policy for the 21st Century
The Designer Economy
A New Philosophy of Planetary Computation
The Planet Is A Political Orphan
Op-ed: After 2021 Tumult, Here’s What It Will Take to Protect American Democracy
Workshop and Discussion on Children of a Modest Star: Governing in the Planetary Age
Both Parties Agree on the End of Reaganomics — and Little Else
The Mission-Oriented Government
Governing in the Planetary Age
The Origins of ‘Planetary Realism’ and ‘whole Earth’ Thinking
The Slander of ‘Isolationism’: How America Became Addicted to Military Intervention and How We Can Get Over It
How In-Person Voting Can Save America
Making Sense of the Unknown
Building Blocks of a National Endowment
The Long Shadow Of The Future
