Sean Gilbert

MIT China | Singapore | Australia | New Zealand

seang [at] mit.edu  -  (617) 253-5068

Sean Gilbert is the Managing Director of the MIT-China Program, MIT-Singapore Program, and the MIT-Australia & New Zealand Program. 

Key programs include MISTI Global Classrooms in Shanghai, Hong Kong,  and Auckland New Zealand; industry collaborations for students in Singapore and Taiwan, and internships with the Australian Institute of Marine Science in the Great Barrier Reef and Air New Zealand in Auckland.  Sean established the Singapore program in 2002 and the Australia & New Zealand program in 2013.  Prior to arriving at MIT in 2000, Sean worked in Taiwan for an erosion control startup, importing environmental technologies and products for Taiwan construction sites (1997-2000); and worked for Taiwan-based conglomerate on its Hawaii hotel investments and automotive and data processing ventures in mainland China (1993-1997). He has also worked in New York as a reinsurance broker, placing European facultative and East Asian treaty risks with international reinsurance companies. 

Sean holds a Master of Arts in Chinese Studies and a Princeton-in-Asia Teaching Certificate from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies & Chinese, with a Minor in Southeast Asian Cultural Anthropology, from New York University. Born in Shrewsbury, England; early childhood in Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia; grew up in Sea Cliff, New York.