Vice Chairman, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Dr. Yergin holds a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board and has chaired the U.S. Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. Currently, Yergin is vice chairman of IHS and founder of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, independent energy research and information firm. He worked as a contributing editor for New York magazine. Through 1980, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1985, a lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School. He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) with Jamey Rosenfield in 1982. He has authored or co-authored several books on energy and world economics, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, (1991) The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011). In September 2020, Yergin published The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations.