David Goldwyn

David Goldwyn

President, Goldwyn Global Strategies LLC

David Goldwyn is president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC. (GGS), an international energy advisory consultancy. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the Atlantic Council, and is an alternate member of the US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. David Goldwyn has authored two recent reports for the Atlantic Council, “Uncertain Energy: The Caribbean’s Gamble with Venezuela” and “Mexico Rising: Comprehensive Energy Reform at Last?,” and was the moderator for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s four-part series on the New Geopolitics of Oil and Gas.

Mr. Goldwyn served as US State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs from 2009 to 2011, reporting directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where he conceived and developed the Global Shale Gas Initiative and the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative, led ministerial level energy dialogues with the developing world, and co-chaired a regional biofuels initiative with Brazil. He had previously served as assistant secretary of energy for international affairs (1999-2001); counselor to the secretary of energy (1998-99); national security deputy to US Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson (1997-98); chief of staff to the under secretary of state for political affairs (1993-97); and an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the State Department (1991-92). He is the co-editor of Energy & Security: Strategies for a World in Transition (Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press 2013).