Daniel Yergin is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a leading international advisory and consulting firm which focuses on the energy industries. Dr. Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics and economics and on 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."Dr. Yergin's 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. As executive producer, Dr. Yergin led the team that turned it into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary. "Commanding Heights" has been broadcast around the world. It received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle award, and the New York Festivals Gold WorldMedal for best documentary. The series Web site won a BAFTA as a "milestone in the development of broadband content."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. Dr. Yergin 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. He is also CNBC's Global Energy Analyst. |