Daniel Yergin

Daniel Yergin, CNBC’s Global Energy Expert, is Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a Pulitzer Prize winner – and a highly respected authority on energy policy and international politics and economics. He is also Executive Vice President of IHS, the parent company of CERA.

He is a recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.”  Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.  He is a member of the board of the United States Energy Association and of the U.S.-Russian Business Council.

He is a member of the National Petroleum Council. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution and on the Advisory Board of the MIT Energy Initiative and of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

His most recent book, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy has been translated into 13 languages – and made into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary. He is writing a new book on energy and geopolitics.

Dr. Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Houston and the University of Missouri.