Adam E. Sieminski

Adam Sieminski is the chief energy economist for Deutsche Bank, working with the bank’s global commodities research and trading units. Drawing on extensive industry, government, and academic sources, Mr. Sieminski forecasts energy market trends and writes on a variety of topics involving energy economics, climate change, politics, and commodity prices. From 1998 to 2005, he served as the energy strategist for Deutsche Bank’s global oil and gas equity team. Mr. Sieminski was the senior energy analyst for NatWest Securities in the United States from 1988 to 1997, covering the major U.S. international integrated oil companies. He received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering and his master’s degree in public administration from Cornell University. He is a senior fellow and ex-president of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and also served as president of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council (NPC), an advisory group to the U.S. secretary of energy, and helped author the NPC’s global oil and gas study, Hard Truths. In addition to his affiliation with the CSIS, he is an advisory board member of the Global Energy and Environment Initiative at Johns Hopkins/SAIS. He has also served as chairman of the Supply-Demand Committee of the Independent Petroleum Association and as an advisory member of the Strategic Energy Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the London, New York, and Washington investment professional societies and holds the chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation.