Alex Gilbert


Alex Gilbert is a NZ Adoption Advocate. He is known as the founder and creator of the worldwide adoption project Im Adopted which he established in 2015. Before this in 2013 he found his biological parents in Russia for the first time by using Russian social network websites. His original story first aired on New Zealands TV One Sunday current affairs program in 2014. Alex has also appeared in several talks to help with adoption awareness.

Alex Gilbert was born on April 1, 1992 in Arkhangelsk, Russia, to Tatiana Gusovskaia and Mihail Kovkov. Gilbert was placed in an Russian orphanage in Arkhangelsk when he was born by his birth mother. He was adopted along with his brother Andrei in 1994 by his NZ parents Mark and Janice Gilbert. He grew up in Whangarei, New Zealand.

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