Nils Gilman is an historian, futurist, and author who is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute, a think tank based in Los Angeles.
He holds a BA, an MA, and a doctorate in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
As an intellectual historian he is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America and Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises.
As a futurist, he is known as the cofounder with Rosa Brooks of the Transition Integrity Project.
He is also a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.