Neil Gilbert, Ph.D. is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, Co-Director of the Center for Child and Youth Policy and Director of the Center for Comparative Family Welfare and Poverty Research. He was also the Founding Director of the Family Welfare Research Group.

Dr. Gilbert served as a Senior Research Fellow for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva in 1975. In 1981, he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship to study the changing structure of social services in the British welfare state, and in 1982, served as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel.  In 1987, he was awarded a second Fulbright Fellowship to study European Social Policy as a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of Stockholm, Social Research Institute.  In 1993 and 1997 he served as a Visiting Scholar at the International Social Security Association in Geneva.

At the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Gilbert was Acting Dean of the School of Social Welfare from 1994-96 and served for five years as Chair of the School’s Doctoral Program. He was Vice Chair and Chair of the Berkeley Senate Faculty’s Graduate Council, a member of the Senate Divisional Council, the Senate Faculty Committee on Privilege and Tenure, and served on the Statewide Senate Faculty Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs.

His numerous publications include thirty books and over 100 articles that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals. Several of his books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian. His book, Capitalism and the Welfare State (Yale University Press) was a New York Times notable book and also reviewed in the New York Review of Books. His 1995 book, Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity was published by Yale University Press and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Partisan Review and The Washington Times. In 2002, Transformation of the Welfare State, published by Oxford University Press was reviewed in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and well-known academic journals. His most recent book, A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life, was reviewed in the Atlantic Monthly. Dr. Gilbert has served on many editorial boards, including Journal of Social Policy (British), Social Work, The Journal of Social Service Research, Children and Youth Services Review, and Gender Issues. He chairs the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Welfare and is editor of the Prentice Hall Series in Social Welfare and the Praeger Publication Series on the Social Services. Gilbert was the U.S. Delegate to Oxford University Press for Social Work and Sociology, served on the Board of Trustees of the Head-Royce School and is chairman of the Board of Seneca Center. In 1987, he was awarded the University of Pittsburgh Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction. In 2000 he was voted Teacher of the Year at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.


Professional Affiliations:

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
  
• Social Policy Association (British)
  
• National Association of Social Workers
  
• International Sociology Association