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Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics and economics and on energy. Dr. Yergin 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.
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 latest book, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy , with CERA President Joseph Stanislaw, 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 WorldMedal for best documentary. The series website won a BAFTA as a “milestone in the development of broadband content.”
Dr. Yergin and his colleague 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 is CNBC's Global Energy Expert. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution and a member of the Committee on Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association and a member of the National Petroleum Council. He is a member of the US Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board and chaired the US Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is also a Director of the US-Russian Business Council, the Atlantic Partnership, and the New America Foundation. 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. |