Joseph A. Stanislaw, the cofounder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), is an internationally recognized authority on energy markets, geopolitics, and corporate strategy. He is a respected advisor to governments and senior executives around the world and has defined the “energy company of the 21st century.”

Dr. Stanislaw also directs the CERA Global Energy Watch and is the coauthor and coeditor of many highly influential CERA reports.

As CERA President he oversees the global operations and the management for the leading international energy research and advisory firm, including its staff of over two hundred in eleven offices worldwide.

Dr. Stanislaw’s latest book The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World examines the diminishing role of the state and the growing role of the marketplace and private enterprise in the world economy. Coauthored with Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Chairman of CERA, the book has received wide international media attention for its analysis. The Los Angeles Times says, “It has been a long time since I have read a book in which intelligence and readability were so felicitously mixed,” and the New York Times Book Review calls it “brilliantly successful.” The Wall Street Journal wrote, “No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II.”

Dr. Stanislaw was a professor and lecturer in economics at Cambridge University and a member of the Energy Research Group in the university’s Cavendish Laboratory and subsequently, Senior Energy Economist at the International Energy Agency in Paris.

Dr. Stanislaw holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Edinburgh University.