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: “How the Trump administration can reform the Jones Act to lower US energy costs,” (Atlantic Council, 2026), “How the US and its allies can prevent an energy supply crisis in the Strait of Hormuz” (Atlantic Council, 2026), “What it takes to revive Venezuela’s oil and gas industry” (Atlantic Council, 2026) and “Building for tomorrow: Preparing US industry to compete in a lower-carbon global economy” (Atlantic Council, 2025). 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.