Dr. Nils Gilman was a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. He serves as Vice President of Programs at the Berggruen Institute, in which capacity he leads the Berggruen Institute’s research program, directs its resident fellowship program, and is also Deputy Editor of The WorldPost. He has previously worked as Associate Chancellor at the University of California Berkeley, as Research Director and scenario planning consultant at the Monitor Group and Global Business Network, and at various enterprise software companies including Salesforce.com and BEA Systems. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2003) and Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (2011), as well as numerous articles on intellectual history and political economy. He holds a BA, MA, and PhD in History from U.C. Berkeley.