Joseph A. Stanislaw

Joseph A. Stanislaw is founder of the advisory firm The JAStanislaw Group, LLC, specializing in strategic thinking, sustainability, and environmentally sound investment in energy and technology. He is also an Independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte & Touche Energy & Resources practice - a role which includes assisting the firm and its clients in identifying and developing services and strategies in the areas of clean and emerging technologies, sustainable development, climate change, carbon initiatives and innovation. Mr. Stanislaw was one of three founders of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in 1983 and served as managing director for all non-U.S. activity until 1997, when he was named president and chief executive officer, positions he held until the sale of the firm in 2005. Mr.Stanislaw is an adjunct professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, where he is a Member of the Board of Advisors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

He serves on the Boards of several corporations which share a specific interest in sustainable and carbon neutral development, climate change, and renewable and alternative clean energy technologies. Mr. Stanislaw was a Research Fellow of Clare Hall and lecturer in Economics at Cambridge University, where he was also a member of the Energy Research Group in the University's Cavendish Laboratory. He was a senior economist at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's International Energy Agency in Paris. Mr. Stanislaw is the co-author, with Daniel Yergin, of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. Now in the second edition, the book has been translated into 13 languages and made into a 6-hour documentary on PBS. He is also the author of "Energy in Flux: The 21st Century's Greatest Challenge", currently being used as the basis for a 4-hour PBS Documentary with a focus on the Energy-Climate Change-Sustainability inter-relationship. Mr. Stanislaw has also authored or co-authored numerous reports and published papers on the geopolitics and economics of future energy supply and demand. Mr. Stanislaw received a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and was awarded an M.A. from the University of Cambridge where he was elected a Research Fellow of Clare Hall. He is one of only several people to have been awarded an Honorary Doctorate and Professorship from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow.