Richard J. Gilbert
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Richard J. Gilbert is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard joined Berkeley’s faculty in 1976, before becoming full professor in 1983. He served as chair of Berkeley’s Economics Department from 2002 to 2005. His research is in industrial organization and regulation with an emphasis on competition policy, innovation, and intellectual property.
In addition, he has served as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general for Economics with the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) 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.
He received his bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering from Cornell University; a master’s in economics from Stanford University; and his PhD in engineering-economic systems, also from Stanford.
