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Daniel H. Yergin is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Born February 6, 1947 in Los Angeles, California to a Chicago Tribune reporter father and a mother who was a sculptor and painter, Yergin attended Beverly Hills High School. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he served on the board of the Yale Daily News, and was a founder of The New Journal. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations (1974) from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar … // … Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates CERA, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Energy in 2004. (full text).

He is leading Expert on Energy and Global Economics … // … Daniel has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the US in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America … (full text).

He says: “High energy prices, climate change and energy security are converging as the new engine driving the development of clean energy » … « there is a major shift in public opinion towards clean energy, which is being bolstered by the growing conviction that new carbon policies will reshape the competitive landscape of the global energy business”. (full long text, Feb 23, 2008).

Daniel H. Yergin – USA

A price tag to growth, Feb 23, 2007.

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As a note of confession, I must tell the readers that in 2003 when I was Director of Technology for a large independent oil company, I had a discussion with the VP of marketing for my company. I asked him why on earth we paid for CERA’s research when their stuff was constantly wrong. He said he knew that they were wrong but that we always wanted to listen to alternative views. With that I agree, but in the press, CERA is constantly proclaimed to be a ‘highly respected’ research firm. There may be less respect than is proclaimed. I do agree with my friend, the former VP of marketing, that one should always listen to alternative viewpoints … (full log text, January 10, 2008).

Sorry, most of his articles are NOT available for free.

His bio on CERA.

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She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Wang Xingjuan became a reporter at 20. She has been particularly concerned with the scale of problems – many of them new – that women are facing during the process of China’s reform and opening-up. She founded an organization, the Red Maple Women’s Consultation and Service Center, which launched the first of many hotlines for women. Retired since 1988, Wang continues to work for women.

She says: « I have realized that when one is in despair, a helping hand can light up new hope in the one who is in difficulty ».

Xingjuan Wang – China

She works for the Red Maple Women’s Consultation and Service Center.

“The latter idea lingered in my mind and would not go.”This is what Wang Xingjuan said after she retired in 1988. There were two choices for her – she could have chosen the career of writing since she had been dealing with words for decades, becoming a reporter in Xihua Daily when she was 20, then working as one of the first youth reporters of China Youth in 1951, and finally for the Beijing Publishing Company after 1974, or she could choose “to do something for our sisters while China is in a phase of reform and is opening up”. This was the “latter idea” of Wang. For the first idea, Wang had experience, but for the latter one, she would have to start anew.

Wang saw that Chinese women were facing many new problems with the economic and political reform. In the increasingly severe social competition, few women could be independent, skilful and successful with the commodity-based economy. Many women needed some sort of support and help to stand up to the situation; this condition of women is contradictory to women’s emancipation reasoned Wang. “I think I have the desire as well as the time to do something for women,” she thought, and some intellectual women supported her ideas and activities.

In order to help women find themselves vis a vis the new trend in China, in October 1988, Wang Xingjuan initiated a civil organization – Women’s Research Institute under the School of Management Science of China; later it was renamed The Red Maple Women’s Consultation and Service Centre.

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