Nili Gilbert

Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, is one of the most influential voices on the questions reshaping global markets: where the economy is heading, what AI and geopolitics mean for strategy today, and how leaders and institutions can identify opportunities to build sustainable value.

As an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with over $1 trillion in assets under management, she oversees strategic planning, capital allocation, and significant investments in digital infrastructure supporting the growth of AI. As Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct Capital and a Senior Advisor at McKinsey, she applies a global investor’s lens to the intersection of emerging technology and industrial systems transformation. Together, these roles place her at the center of the most consequential questions of our time.

Her career spans the full arc of institutional asset management. She co-founded Matarin Capital, scaling it into one of the largest women-owned asset managers in the United States, and previously served as Senior Director at Invesco Quantitative Strategies, managing over $25 billion in assets for institutional clients. She currently chairs the David Rockefeller Fund Investment Committee.

Named to Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and TIME100 Climate, Gilbert is also a Forbes contributor and has been a frequent commentator on international markets and economic strategy on CNBC and Bloomberg Television. Her TED Talk has nearly two million views.

She has delivered hundreds of speaking engagements across six continents, from Davos to the G20, World Bank to the Vatican, Swiss Re to First Abu Dhabi Bank, Fortune to Bloomberg.