Residence Aberdeen and London Occupation Businessman Education University of Aberdeen Role Businessman | Ethnicity White British Name Martin Gilbert Nationality British Years active 1976–present | |
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Full Name Martin James Gilbert Born 13 July 1955 (age 68) ( 1955-07-13 ) Malaysia Profiles | ||
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Martin James Gilbert FRSE (born 13 July 1955) is a British businessman, chief executive (CEO) of Aberdeen Asset Management, an international investment management company, which he co-founded in 1983. He was chairman of FirstGroup from 1 April 1995 to 1 January 2014. He became a patron of The Aberdeen Law Project in 2010.
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Early life
Born in Malaysia, Gilbert was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and the University of Aberdeen and has an LLB in Law an MA in Accountancy. He was in the same year of law school at the University of Aberdeen as Alistair Darling.
Career
Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in 1983.
Gilbert received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2014 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017.
In March 2017, a merger between Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management was announced. At the time, the merger created the UK’s largest asset management firm, and the second biggest in Europe.
Personal life
Gilbert and his wife Fiona, professor of radiology at the University of Cambridge, have three children.