Christopher Gilbert is an Adjunct Professor at the SAIS Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University. 

Prior to retirement from full-time employment in 2014, I was Professor of Econometrics at the University of Trento, Italy.  Previously, I was Professor of Finance at the Free University (Vrije Universiteit) of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and before that Professor of Applied Economics at Queen Mary University, London. I have also held positions at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol.  I am a graduate of Oxford (M.A., D.Phil.) and LSE (M.Sc.).

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My academic work currently focuses on commodity and commodity futures markets covering agriculturals, energy and metals. I have also written on agricultural policy in developing countries, the history and methodology of econometrics and on global economic institutions. I am a non-executive director of the CRU Group and have consulted extensively for the EC, FAO, IADB, ICO, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD and the World Bank.

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I have worked both as an expert witness and a damages expert in a number of futures manipulation and anti-trust cases. These include the Sumitomo copper manipulation, the Amaranth natural gas manipulation, the alleged Moore Capital palladium and platinum manipulation, the alleged PIMCO Treasury note manipulation, and the alleged Goldman Sachs aluminum warehousing anti-trust case.