company's merger with IHS Markit. He became the vice chairman of IHS in 2012 and remained vice chairman when IHS merged with Markit in 2016. He is also chairman of S&P's annual CERAWeek energy conference. He previously chaired the US Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a trustee of the Brookings Institution, where he chairs the energy security roundtable. He is currently a director on the Council on Foreign Relations, United States Energy Association, and the U.S.-Russia Business Council. He serves on the National Petroleum Council, which advises the U.S. Secretary of Energy. He is on the advisory boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative, the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, and Singapore's International Energy Advisory Panel. Yergin has been a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. In December 2016 Yergin joined a business forum composed primarily of CEOs assembled to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues to President Donald Trump. The forum was disbanded in August 2017. Awards Yergin was awarded the 1997 United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding." The International Association for Energy Economics gave Dr. Yergin its 2012 award for "outstanding contributions to the profession of energy economics and to its literature." In 2014 the Prime Minister of India presented Yergin with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2015 the University of Pennsylvania presented him with the first Carnot Prize for "distinguished contributions to energy policy." The U.S. Department of Energy awarded him the first James Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security in 2014. Publishing history Books as author Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Reprints: Penguin, 1978, 1980, ; Penguin, rev. & updated, 1990, . The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. . Reprint: Simon & Schuster, 1992, . The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. Penguin Press, 2011. . (Revised, reprint edition, 2012.) The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. Penguin Press, 2020. . Books as co-author Energy Future: The Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. New York: Random House, 1979. . Reprints: Ballantine Books, ; Knopf, 3rd