Speakers

Joseph A. Stanislaw is founder of the advisory firm The JAStanislaw Group, specializing in strategy, sustainability, and environmentally sound investment in energy and technology. He is also an independent senior advisor for energy and sustainability to Deloitte. He was one of three founders of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and served as its president and until the sale of the firm in 2004.  He 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 is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the co-author, with Daniel Yergin, of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, and author of Energy in Flux: The 21st Century’s Greatest Challenge, used as the basis for a one-hour PBS documentary.