
Daniel Yergin
Economy / Economics, Energy, Globalization, International Relations
Travels from District of Columbia, USA
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Daniel Yergin Profile
Daniel Yergin was educated at Yale University, where he founded The New Journal, and, as a Marshall Scholar, at Cambridge University where he was awarded his Ph.D. He is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers on energy and its associated economics working in the world today.
Daniel’s book The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, spends time at number one in the New York Times bestseller list and is now available in seventeen languages. He has written many other highly significant works, as well as making contributions to every relevant journal of note, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Forum Policy, The Atlantic and the International Herald Tribune. He also features on CNBC as their Global Energy Expert.
The Prize and another of Daniel’s books, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy have been made into documentaries; the miniseries of The Prize was shown on PBS, BBC and NHK, garnering over twenty million viewers in the USA. He acted as producer on the documentary based on Commanding Heights, a documentary which received a trio of Emmy nominations, the CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold World Medal.
Daniel is a member of the US Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and was the chair of the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He also serves as a trustee of the Brookings Institution and on the Board of the New America Foundation as well as holding positions on the advisory boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative and the Institute for 21st Century Energy. He has held teaching posts at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Daniel Yergin has been honored with the United States Energy award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.”
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Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates and CNBC′s Global Energy Expert
Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and leading authority on energy, international politics and economics and is a recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.”
His book The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, has been hailed as “a fascinating saga” about the “quest for sustainable resources of energy” and “the book you must read to understand the future of our economy and our way of life.”
The Quest is the follow-up to Yergin’s previous book, The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power, which received the Pulitzer Prize and became a number one New York Times best seller that has been translated into 17 languages.
Other significant works by Yergin include Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy; Russia 2010; Energy Future; and Shattered Peace. Yergin has also written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, International Herald Tribune, and many other publications. He is also CNBC’s Global Energy Expert.
Both The Prize and Commanding Heights were made into award winning documentaries. The eight-hour miniseries The Prize was aired on PBS, BBC, and NHK and viewed by 20 million viewers in the United States alone. The 6-hour documentary of, Commanding Heights that Yergin produced received three Emmy nominations, the CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold World Medal for best documentary.
Yergin serves on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and chaired the U.S. Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, on the Board of the New America Foundation, and on the advisory boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative and the Institute for 21st Century Energy.
Yergin holds a BA from Yale University, where he founded The New Journal, and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has taught at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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