{{Short description|Academic and author}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} '''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. From 2014 to 2017, he was Associate Chancellor at UC 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.
==Books== *''Staging Growth. Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War'' (2003)<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Painter | first1=David S. | title=Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (Review) | journal=Journal of Cold War Studies | date=2005 | volume=7 | issue=4 | pages=137–138 | doi=10.1162/1520397055012424 | url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/6/article/188275/pdf }}</ref> *''Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America'' (2004)<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Hixson | first1=W. | title=GILMAN NILS. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History.) Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. Pp. Xi, 329. $48.00. | journal=The American Historical Review | date=2006 | volume=111 | issue=2 | pages=508–509 | doi=10.1086/ahr.111.2.508 | url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/111/2/508/41528 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *''Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century'' (2011)<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Zabyelina | first1=Yuliya | title=Book Review: Britain and Ireland: Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century | journal=Political Studies Review | date=2013 | volume=11 | issue=3 | pages=421–422 | doi=10.1111/1478-9302.12028_49 | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1478-9302.12028_49 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> *''Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises'' (2024)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735973 | doi=10.1086/735973 | title=''Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises'' | date=2025 | last1=Currie | first1=Thomas E. | journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology | volume=100 | issue=2 | pages=143–144 | url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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