DAVID L. GOLDWYN, President
David Goldwyn is president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC (GGS), an international energy advisory consultancy, and Chairman of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center’s Energy Advisory Group. He is a globally recognized thought leader, educator and policy innovator in energy security and extractive industry transparency.
Mr. Goldwyn served as the US State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs from 2009 to 2011 and assistant secretary of energy for international affairs (1999-2001), the only person to hold both the US government’s international energy leadership positions. He also served as national security deputy to US Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson (1997-98) and chief of staff to the U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1993-97).
Mr. Goldwyn has been published extensively on topics related to energy security and transparency. He is the co-editor of Energy & Security: Strategies for a World in Transition (Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press 2013) and Drilling Down: The Civil Society Guide to Extractive Industry Revenues and the EITI (Revenue Watch Institute 2008). Mr. Goldwyn’s recent publications include “Chevron deference is dead—and US climate action hangs in the balance" (Atlantic Council 2024), “A year after the IRA, industrial policy has gone global. Now what?” (Atlantic Council 2023), “A Roadmap for the Caribbean’s Energy Transition,” (Atlantic Council 2023), “Six steps Guyana can take to avoid the resource curse,” (Atlantic Council 2023), and “Confronting the Resource Curse: Advice for Investors and Partners” (Baker Institute 2020). Mr. Goldwyn holds a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Public Affairs from Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs and a J.D. from New York University.
ANDREA CLABOUGH, Senior Associate
Andrea Clabough is an Associate at Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC and a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. She writes on a range of energy and climate policy issues, including geopolitics, the oil and gas markets, renewable and zero-carbon energy technologies with a focus on offshore wind, the politics of the energy transition and climate change, and US domestic energy policy. Her publications include the book chapter “Confronting the Resource Curse: Advice for Investors and Partners” in The Role of Foreign Direct Investment In Resource Rich Regions (The Baker Institute at Rice University, February 2020) (co-authored with David L. Goldwyn), “Chevron deference is dead—and US climate action hangs in the balance" (Atlantic Council 2024) (co-authored with David Goldwyn), "A transatlantic energy security strategy must also be a sustainable one," (Nature Energy, October 2023), and “Election 2020: What’s at stake for energy?” (The Atlantic Council, January 2020 and updated August 2020) (co-authored with David Goldwyn).
Andrea previously worked as a Research Assistant for Washington Policy and Analysis, Inc., a consulting firm focusing on international dimensions of energy security. Andrea holds a Master’s degree in International Security at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where she was a founding Board member and Associate Editor for the Georgetown Security Studies Review. Andrea is from Knoxville, TN, and earned her Bachelor’s degree at Vanderbilt University in Political Science and History.
