Daniel Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author and economic researcher.

Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. His M.A. and Ph.D. (1974) are from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Yergin's first major book, Shattered Peace, was a moderately 'revisionist' account of the origins of the Cold War that attributed it chiefly "tragic misconceptions" on the part of American policymakers who, in the post-WWII years, embraced the "Riga axioms" of George F. Kennan, Charles W. Henderson , Charles E. Bohlen, and Elbridge Durbow rather than the "Yalta axioms" of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shattered Peace was based on Yergin's Ph.D. dissertation.

Daniel Yergin is best known for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, a number-one bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1992. The book was adapted into a PBS mini-series seen by more than 20 million viewers. Yergin was awarded the 1997 United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding."

Yergin is the chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates .

Books by Daniel Yergin

• . New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Reprints: Penguin, 1978, 1980, ISBN 039527267X; Penguin, rev. & updated, 1990, ISBN 0140121773.
• The Dependence Dilemma (Harvard Studies in International Affairs 43): Gasoline Consumption and America's Security. University Press of America, 1980. ISBN 0876740476. Reprint: Rowman & Littlefield, 1984, ISBN 0819140562.
• 1989 Fuels report hearing on the oil price forecast and scenario planning (CEC contract). Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1989. ASIN B0007BRYKG.
• The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1990. ASIN B0006EXWU0.
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN 0671502484. Reprint: Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 0671799320.
• Gasoline and the American People. Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1991. ASIN B0006EY6YQ.
• The Euro: Remaking Europe's Future: The New Europe poses enormous challenges — for the welfare state, for companies, and for political leaders. Cambridge Energy Associates, 1998. ASIN B0006RK36I.

Books co-authored by Daniel Yergin

• Energy Future: The Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. New York: Random House, 1979. ISBN 0394501632. Reprints: Ballantine Books, ISBN 0394293495; Knopf, 3rd ed., 1982, ISBN 0394710630; Random House, new revised 3rd ed., 1990, ISBN 03947450X. [With Robert B. Stobach .]
• . New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. ISBN 0395305179. Reprint: Viking Penguin Books, 1983, ISBN 0140067523. [With Martin Hillenbrand .]
• . New York: Random House, 1993. ISBN 0679429956. Reprint: Vintage, 1995, ISBN 067975220. [With Thane Gustafson.]
• The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. Revised, retitled, and updated ed. New York: Free Press, 2002. ISBN 068483569X. (Original edition, entitled: The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998; ISBN 0684829754.) [With Joseph A. Stanislaw .]
• Global Energy: Challenges and Priorities (Foreign Affairs Editors' Choice). Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2001. ISBN 0876093055. [With Amory Lovins and Dennis Eklof .]