Daniel Yergin
| Daniel Yergin | |
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At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012
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| Born |
February 6, 1947 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Washington, DC |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Author, Energy analyst |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize |
| Website | www |
Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Inc. He is best known as author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1991) and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011). He received his PhD from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar.
Born in Los Angeles, California, to a Chicago Tribune reporter father and a mother who was a sculptor and painter, Yergin attended Beverly Hills High School. He received his BA from Yale University in 1968, where he served on the board of the Yale Daily News, and was a founder of The New Journal. He earned his PhD in International Relations (1974) from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has honorary doctorates from Colorado School of Mines, University of Houston, and the University of Missouri.
From 1978 through 1980, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Business School and, until 1985, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in 1982 with the purchase of a $7 file cabinet from The Salvation Army. In 2004, CERA was acquired by the information company IHS Inc., of which he is now vice chairman.
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