Thane Gustafson

IHS Markit

Senior Director and Advisor, Energy

Thane Gustafson, Senior Director and Advisor, Energy, IHS Markit, and Professor of Government at Georgetown University, is an authority on Eurasia who has spent 40 years studying and traveling in Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of the Former Soviet Union. Dr. Gustafson founded the Energy service’s Russian and Caspian team and directed it for 15 years. He is the author of over 200 Energy reports, including analyses of technology transfer and Russian upstream technology; gas market developments and transit issues; Russian oil production and domestic and foreign oil markets; US-Russian political and energy relations; regulatory, fiscal, and legal reform in the Russian energy sector; and the evolution of the Russian oil and gas companies. Dr. Gustafson has authored numerous books, including his latest book Wheel of Fortune:The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia. Other titles include Capitalism Russian Style and Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev; and he was a coauthor (with IHS Markit Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin) of Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World. Formerly a professor at Harvard University and a Political Analyst at the Rand Corporation, Dr. Gustafson holds a BS from the University of Illinois and a PhD from Harvard University.