Event: CNA National Security Seminar Series – Apr 5

April 5, noon-1:30 p.m. — Daniel Yergin, Ph.D., Pulitzer Prize winner and authority on energy policy and international politics and economics, will discuss the current state of the world’s petroleum industry.

Dr. Yergin is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and Executive Vice President of IHS, the parent company of CERA. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his work, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power and was named one of the 500 most influential people in the U.S. in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America.  Yergin’s 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; and his most recent book, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, was published last fall. Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He also holds honorary degrees from the University of Houston and the University of Missouri.