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Kristin Gilbertson

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Chief Investment Officer at Access Industries
📍 New York, New York, United States

Kristin Gilbertson is the Chief Investment Officer at Access Industries, leveraging an extensive career leading large endowments for the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Management Company. An alumna of Harvard University and Stanford GSB, her investment career began at The World Bank. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.

Kristin maintains a deep interest in economic development, stemming from her early career as an urban economist. She actively follows high-level economic discussions on topics such as diversity, race, and access. Her thought leadership focuses on risk management, resilience, and navigating complex market environments, which she shares through academic and industry forums.

As CIO of the University of Pennsylvania, she was named Large Endowment Manager of the Year for leading the fund to the best performance among the Ivy League during the 2008 financial crisis.

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Current Role
Chief Investment Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Priorities

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Endowment Management
She has deep expertise in endowment and institutional investing, having served as Chief Investment Officer for the University of Pennsylvania and a Managing Director at Stanford Management Company.
Risk and Resilience
A core theme of her investment philosophy, highlighted by her successful navigation of the 2008 financial crisis and discussions on the topic in recent podcast interviews.
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Career

Work history

Chief Investment Officer
Access Industries
Chief Investment Officer
University of Pennsylvania
Managing Director Public Equities
Stanford Management Company
Principal Investment Officer
The World Bank
In the press

Media appearances

Blavatnik's Access Industries Taps UPenn's Ex-CIO For 'Endowment ...'. Featured in The Wall Street Journal
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Education
BA
Harvard University
MBA
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
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