Megan Gilbert

Megan Gilbert is Vice President and Executive Editorial Director of the award-winning Fortune Brand Studio, a division of Fortune Media. She drives the editorial direction, strategy, program management and production of branded content, co-leading the creative studio team in digital, audio, video, social and print storytelling for high-profile clients such as Salesforce, PayPal, Zurich Insurance, AWS, Accenture, and more.

Gilbert's varied and lengthy career in branded content includes positions at Gawker/Gizmodo, Fusion/Univision, The Washington Post, Slate, and VICE. Megan holds a B.A. from Boston University and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She teaches a graduate-level course in Branded Content at New York University's School of Professional Studies and speaks each year at the university’s Summer Publishing Institute.

Gilbert was an integral member of the small but mighty creative and production team behind The Ecopreneurs (2024 Paid Campaign of the Year, Global Content Awards; 2023 Project of the Year, Content Marketing Awards). She was named to the 2024 class of Ragan’s ranking of Top Women in Marketing, won Content Marketer of the Year in 2022 (Women in Content Marketing Awards), and was included on the 100 Most Significant Women in Native Advertising list in 2018. She is a judge for the Webby Awards, Signal Awards, Anthem Awards, Telly Awards, AIVA/W3 Awards, WICMA Awards, and Native Advertising Awards and is a proud member of the Brand Storytelling community at Sundance.