• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Daniel Yergin

S&P Global

Vice Chairman

Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is Vice Chairman of S&P Global and chairman of S&P Global’s CERAWeek conference, which CNBC has called “the Super Bowl of energy”. Time Magazine said, “If there is one man whose opinion matters more than any other on global energy markets, it’s Daniel Yergin.” Fortune has called him “one of the planet’s foremost thinkers about energy and its implications.” Dr. Yergin’s new 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.” Dr. Yergin is the author of the bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, described as “a fantastic book” by Bill Gates in his review. Dr. Yergin’s book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, was a number one New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into 20 languages. He co-authored Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, of which 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 The Commanding Heights were made into multi-hour television series for PBS and BBC. Dr. Yergin served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under four presidents. He is a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Dallas Federal Reserve’s Energy Advisory Council, the Energy Think Tank of the government of India and the Energy Governors of the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the advisory boards of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and MIT’s Energy Initiative. Dr. Yergin was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Prime Minister of India and received the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.” He received the Charles Percy Award for Public Service from the Alliance to Save Energy. The International Association for Energy Economics gave Dr. Yergin its 2012 award for “outstanding contributions to the profession of energy economics and to its literature. Dr. Yergin holds a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Sessions With Daniel Yergin

Monday, 9 March

Tuesday, 10 March

Wednesday, 11 March

Thursday, 12 March

  • 08:50am - 09:15am (CST) / -

    Plenary - Leadership Dialogue
  • 09:15am - 09:40am (CST) / -

    Plenary - Leadership Dialogue
  • 12:45pm - 02:00pm (CST) / -

    Luncheon & Dialogue
    Lunch/Dinner Discussion
    • Speakers:
    • Daniel Yergin
  • 02:10pm - 02:35pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Regulatory Dialogue
    Power & Renewables Innovation & Technology
  • 02:40pm - 03:20pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Role of Gas in the Energy Future
    Power & Renewables

    The focus on the energy transition provides both opportunities and challenges for natural gas, the most environmentally friendly of the fossil fuels. The gas industry has already shown that it can reduce emissions and improve air quality, but can it also demonstrate that it is the foundation for deeper, faster decarbonization?  What does the gas industry look like in a deep decarbonization world, and how does it adapt? What role does thermal power—and especially natural gas—play in power systems with increasing amounts of renewable supply? How can industry and policymakers counter the opposing risks of stranded assets and carbon “lock-in”?

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    Dinner & Dialogue: The next technology revolution

    Living Machines are among the most exciting new developments in technology—and have the promise to reshape the world and to overcome the greatest humanitarian, energy, and environmental challenges of our time. We are on the cusp of a new convergence, with discoveries in biology coming together with engineering to produce another array of almost inconceivable technologies—next-generation products as paradigm shifting to the next century as was the digital transformation to the last. They also pose new risks and challenges. Susan Hockfield is a world-renowned neuroscientist, author, and former president of MIT. 

Friday, 13 March