Daniel Yergin

American energy historian and analyst — author of The Prize (Pulitzer Prize, 1991) and The Quest — vice chairman of IHS Markit — the most authoritative writer on the history of oil and global energy.

Creates the definitive history of oil as a geopolitical force — The Prize's account of oil from Drake's 1859 well through the Gulf War is the most comprehensive and readable single-volume history of how petroleum shaped the modern world's politics and economy.