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William R. Veno, CERA Director, Refined Products, is an expert on crude oil and refined product markets, refining and marketing, and on energy economics and strategy. Mr. Veno directs CERA's global refining and marketing research activity, with particular emphasis on North American oil demand, the transportation sector, and refined product pricing. He coordinated the recent CERA studies Westward Flows and Refiners' Woes: The Growing Role of Imports in US Gasoline Supply, Global Oil Trends, and Gasoline and the American People. Prior to joining CERA, he directed the Oil Service at DRI/McGraw Hill, where he was responsible for analysis of world and US oil markets and for forecasts of crude and product prices. He was a participant in the recent National Petroleum Council study updating two prior NPC studies: US Petroleum Refining: Assuring the Adequacy and Affordability of Cleaner Fuels (2000) and U.S. Petroleum Product Supply-Inventory Dynamics (1998).
Mr. Veno holds a BS from the University of Notre Dame, an MS from Dartmouth College, and an MS from Columbia University.
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Aaron Brady CERA Associate Director, Global Oil is an expert in the global oil market, including downstream price dynamics, political and regulatory influences, and economic trends. Mr. Brady is a regular contributor to CERA's global oil research, providing market analysis on supply and demand fundamentals and key trends in the global downstream. He also researches and writes the North American oil section of CERA's semiannual Global Energy Watch. His recent CERA research includes ethanol and distillates markets, among other issues. Mr. Brady holds a BA from Amherst College and an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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James Burkhard, Managing Director, Global Oil Group, leads CERA's research on exploration and production strategy, upstream technology, and short- and long-term analysis of crude oil and refined products markets. He is the coauthor of CERA's respected World Oil Watch. His expertise covers analysis of geopolitics, world economic conditions, and global oil demand and supply trends and how they influence oil prices. Mr. Burkhard is currently the project director of Dawn of a New Age: Global Energy Scenarios for Strategic Decision Making--The Energy Future to 2030, the most comprehensive study that CERA has ever undertaken, encompassing the oil, gas, and electricity sectors. He was also the director of the CERA Multiclient Study Potential versus Reality: West African Oil & Gas to 2020.
Mr. Burkhard holds a BA from Hamline University and an MS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University..
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Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics and economics and on energy. Dr. Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding." He is both a world-recognized author and a business leader, as chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world's leading consulting and research firms in its field. He is also executive vice president of IHS, the parent company of CERA.
Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States. The book has been translated into 12 languages.
Dr. Yergin plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He chaired the US Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association, and a member of the National Petroleum Council and this year became the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas. He is also one of the "Wise Men" of the International Gas Union.
He is CNBC's Global Energy Expert.
In November 2005 Dr. Yergin was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining "an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community."
Of Dr. Yergin's most recent book, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, 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." It has been translated into 13 languages. Dr. Yergin led the team that turned it into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary -- the major PBS television series on globalization. The series received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold WorldMedal for best documentary.
Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and on the Board of the New America Foundation, a Director of the US-Russia Business Council and on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Economics.
Dr. Yergin received his BA from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Dr. Yergin co-founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates, now an IHS company. Its offices are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Beijing, Calgary, Dubai, Mexico City, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.
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