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Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics, economics and energy. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding. He is both a world-recognized author and a business leader, as Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). With 200 employees around the world, CERA is one of the world's leading consulting and research firms in its field, and is one of the key companies within IHS, of which he is Executive Vice President
Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a #1 national best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States. The book has been translated into 12 languages.
His subsequent book, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy has received wide attention for its analysis and narrative of how the world is changing its mind about markets and government. The Wall Street Journal said, No one could ask for a better account of the world's political and economic destiny since World War II. It has been translated into 13 languages. As executive producer, Dr. Yergin led the team that turned it into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary. The Washington Post described the series as stunningly ambitious, brilliantly successful... No more important program for making sense of our life and times has been seen on the air in at least a decade and just possibly a good deal longer. It received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold World Medal for best documentary. The series website won a BAFTA as a milestone in the development of broadband content.
Dr. Yergin and CERA Senior Director Thane Gustafson authored Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World, which The New York Times called invaluable and The Financial Times described as extraordinarily intelligent.
Dr. Yergin was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community.
Dr. Yergin is CNBC's Global Energy Expert. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association and a member of the National Petroleum Council. He is vice chair of the new National Petroleum Council study Facing the Hard Truths About Energy. He also chaired the US Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development.
Dr. Yergin is a Director of the U.S.-Russia Business Council, the Atlantic Partnership and the New America Foundation. He is the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas, and is one of the Wise Men of the International Gas Union. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and is on the Advisory Board to the Energy Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Yergin received his BA from Yale University, and his PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He previously taught at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Dr. Yergin is a Director of the US-Russian Business Council, the Atlantic Partnership, and the New America Foundation. He is the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas, and is one of the Wise Men of the International Gas Union. Dr. Yergin is a member of the Advisory Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and is on the Advisory Board to the Energy Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Yergin received his BA from Yale University, and his PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He previously taught at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. | 