Education
University of Aberdeen.
University of Aberdeen.
He was chairman of FirstGroup from 1 April 1995 to 1 January 2014. He became a patron of The Aberdeen Law Project in 2010. Born in Malaysia, Gilbert was educated at Robert Gordon"s College, Aberdeen, and the University of Aberdeen and has an Bachelor of Laws in Law an Master of Arts in Accountancy.
He was in the same year of law school at the University of Aberdeen as Alistair Darling.
Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in 1983. Gilbert received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2014.