Dr. Gilbert is currently Professor Emeritus of Economics at UC Berkeley. He has previously served as Chair of Berkeley’s Economics Department from 2002-2005. Dr. Gilbert was previously the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics with the U.S. Justice Department, and was Director of the University of California Energy Institute.

He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1989 and was a visiting fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge in 1979 and 2006.  Dr.  Gilbert was educated at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1976, the same year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor. He became a full professor in 1983. His research is in industrial organization and regulation with an emphasis on competition policy, innovation and intellectual property.