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Senior Fellow
A senior fellow at the Center, where he has maintained an office since 2004, Michael Gilbert is active in a wide cross-section of the Center's activities. He has been involved in focus group discussions and participated in the design, review and presentation of the Center's research programs with special emphasis on family and gender issues. He is actively involved in the Center's external relations and regularly provides briefings and trend line summaries of the Center's research to groups interested in its work. He has been featured on national television as a guest analyst, most recently on Fox News and MSNBC, as well as the op-ed pages of Newsday and The Christian Science Monitor.
Michael Gilbert is the author of an award-winning book demonstrating the continuing relevance of deep-seated biological and evolutionary forces in today's sophisticated digital domains. The Disposable Male: Sex, Love and Money - Your World through Darwin's Eyes presents a perspective on contemporary relationships, family and workplace issues rooted in our natural history and genetic heritage. Winner of an Independent Publisher 2007 Silver Medal, the book is published by The Hunter Press. (www.thedisposablemale.com)
Michael Gilbert has also participated in an array of individual and corporate entertainment industry activities in conjunction with MGM/UA, Sony Pictures, Fox and New World Entertainment. He was executive producer of "Two Solitudes," a Canadian film adaptation of Hugh MacLennan's award winning historical novel, and served as a senior executive and director of a multi-faceted entertainment production company located at the Burbank Studios.
Upon concluding his formal education with an MBA at Harvard, Michael Gilbert combined university lecturing with a varied and accomplished career as an executive and entrepreneur in real estate, investment banking and the entertainment industry before returning to academic roots and his current focus on the social implications of today's digital technologies. He has served as a senior officer and director of several public companies, lectured in the adjunct faculty at Concordia University (in Montreal) and authored articles on a variety of topics. Among his more notable property developments is the $140 million Sony Pictures Plaza, winner of several prestigious awards, located at the eastern perimeter of Sony's Culver City, California studios.
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