Richard Gilmore

Founder of GIC Group, Richard Gilmore currently is President & Chief Executive Officer at this company.
Dr. Gilmore received a doctorate from The Graduate Institute and a graduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University.Rick Gilmore, President/CEO, founded GIC Trade, Inc./GIC Group in 1980.
He has a PhD in trade economics and extensive experience in policy analysis, trade, investment, and market research for agro-industries.
Dr. Gilmore has served as an advisor to the US government in a variety of capacities, a member of private and public sector boards, a trustee of international companies and regulatory agencies in the US and Canada, and is an author of books and articles as well as a media commentator on global agricultural issues.
Prior to founding the GIC Group, Gilmore was project director for food policies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, director of food policy at the Overseas Development Council, and staff member at the Rand Corporation.
Education: Ph.D., International Economics/Trade, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1971, Fulbright Fellow.
M.A., International and Development Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, 1967.
Post Graduate: Rockefeller Fellow, Visiting Fellow – Rand Corp.
and Overseas Development Council.