Daniel Yergin is being recognized with the highest honor of the World Petroleum Council (WPC), the Dewhurst Award, a distinguished lifetime achievement award celebrating his “exceptional contribution to the oil, gas and energy industry.”

Yergin, currently vice chairman of IHS Markit, will receive the award during the Dewhurst Ceremony at the 23rd World Petroleum Congress in Houston this December. He is only the eleventh recipient of the Dewhurst Award in the nearly 90-year history of the WPC.

The award is a tribute to Thomas Dewhurst (1881-1973), who organized what was to become the first World Petroleum Congress in 1933 while serving as president of the Institute of Petroleum in the U.K. Previous winners of the Dewhurst award have included Rex Tillerson (USA), Abdulla Bin Hamad Al Attiyah (Qatar) and Ali Al-Naimi (Saudi Arabia).

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Commenting on the Yergin’s recognition, Tor Fjaeran, president of the World Petroleum Council, said: “Dan Yergin has been an inspiration for our industry and an authoritative guide to the energy transformations in our lives and throughout history, through his research, his lectures and his books such as the Pulitzer-prize winning The Prize and The Quest.”

“Dan’s very influential new book The New Map is essential reading, for it lays out the future pathways for energy, climate and geopolitics,” Tor Fjaeran continued. “He has created an enormous legacy as one of the highest authorities on energy, international politics and economics. We are grateful for his continued support to the WPC. It was a pleasure to welcome him as a plenary speaker to our previous congresses in Istanbul and Moscow and it will be an honor to present him with our highest award at this year’s event in Houston. On behalf of our board and the member countries of the World Petroleum Council, I am delighted to congratulate him on this much-deserved recognition.”

Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He has 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 Energy Think Tank of the government of India, and of the Energy Governors of the World Economic Forum.

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