Nils Gilman is an historian, futurist, and author who is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the

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, a

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based in

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. He holds a BA, an MA, and a doctorate in history from the

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. From 2014 to 2017, he was Associate Chancellor at

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. 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

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of the

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. He is also a fellow at the

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Books

*''Staging Growth. Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War'' (2003) *''Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America'' (2004) *''Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century'' (2011) *''Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises'' (2024)

References

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