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Joseph A. Stanislaw
Founder, The JAStanislaw Group LLC
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Joseph A. Stanislaw is founder of the advisory firm The JAStanislaw Group, LLC, specializing in strategic thinking, sustainability, and environmentally sound investment in energy (all forms) and technology. He is also an Independent Senior Advisor, Energy and Sustainability to Deloitte LLP – a role which includes assisting the firm and its clients in identifying and developing services and strategies in meeting the challenges of a changing geopolitical and energy environment, sustainable development, climate change, carbon initiatives and technology innovation. Dr. 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 2004.
Dr. Stanislaw is an adjunct professor in the Nicholas School at Duke University, where he is a Member of the Board of Advisors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. He is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Boards of several corporations in the energy sector which share a specific interest in oil and natural gas, sustainable and carbon neutral development, climate change, and renewable and alternative clean energy technologies. Dr. Stanislaw also serves as an advisor to several investment firms whose portfolios include companies with this same focus, as well as to sovereign states currently re-evaluating their current and future energy policies.
Dr. 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.
Dr. Stanislaw is the co-author, with Daniel Yergin, of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. The book is a best seller and has been translated into 13 languages and made into an award winning 6-hour documentary on PBS. He is also the author of “Energy in Flux: The 21st Century’s Greatest Challenge”, used as the basis for a 1-hour PBS Documentary, “Oil Shockwave”, that focuses on meeting the challenges of energy security, climate change and economic growth. Dr. Stanislaw has also authored and co-authored numerous reports and published papers on the geopolitics and economics of future energy supply and demand.
Dr. 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.
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