More than two-decades of experience in the US and abroad advising industries in the food, agriculture, high-tech, health, and defense sectors. Focus on high-value strategic communications involving complex issues at the intersection of science, law, regulation, and public acceptance. Cumulative savings to industry in the many billions of dollars.Served in White House and other top government positions. As Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Gilder was deeply engaged in diplomatic efforts in Eastern Europe leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and had key responsibility at DOS for the annual US Human Rights Report. Began career as a working journalist, critic and columnist and was Associate Editor of the national news magazine Saturday Review. Author of the novel Ghost Image (Simon & Schuster 2002) and co-author with Anne-Lee Gilder of Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind one of History’s Greatest Scientific Discoveries.(Doubleday 2004).