Daniel Yergin, Ph.D.

Daniel Yergin is Vice Chairman of S&P Global.  He is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He chairs S&P’s CERAWeek conference, which CNBC has called “the Super Bowl of world energy”.

Time Magazine said, “If there is one man whose opinion matters more than any other on global energy markets, it’s Daniel Yergin.” The New York Times called him “America’s most influential energy pundit” And The Wall Street Journal described him as “the energy sage”.

He plays a leadership role in the Commodity Insight research at S&P Global and recently led studies on LNG as a major new U.S. export industry and on “Copper in the Age of AI”.

Dr. Yergin’s most recent book The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations is described by NPR as “a master class on how the world works,”  and in The Washington Post as “a tour de force of geopolitical understanding.,” It has been translated into 14 languages.

A Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Yergin is the author of the bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. The Quest, which The New York Times said it is “necessary reading for C.E.O.’s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks (and) thriller writers.” Bill Gates summed up his review of The Quest by saying, “This is a fantastic book.”

Dr. Yergin is known around the world for his book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. It became a number one New York Times best seller and has been translated into 20 languages.

Of Dr. Yergin’s book Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which has been translated into 13 languages, 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.” Both The Prize and Commanding Heights were made into award- winning television documentaries for PBS and BBC, which Dr. Yergin co-produced, co-wrote, and narrated.

Dr. Yergin is a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution and a member of the Energy Advisory Council of the Dallas Federal Reserve.  Dr. Yergin served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under four U.S. presidents.

Among his honors, both the Prime Minister of India and the United States Association have presented Dr. Yergin with a “Lifetime Achievement” awards and the U.S. Department of Energy awarded him the first “James Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security.” The University of Pennsylvania presented him with the first Carnot Prize for “distinguished contributions to energy policy.” Dr. Yergin was awarded the Gold 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 a member of the advisory boards for the Columbia University Center on Global Energy policy and the MIT Energy Initiative.

Dr. Yergin holds a BA from Yale University and an M.A. and  Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar