Adam Sieminski is the Senior Advisor to the Board of Trustees at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), a leading advisory think tank located in Riyadh. KAPSARC’s mission is to inform global policies on energy, economics, and sustainability.  Sieminski served as the President of KAPSARC from April 2018 to August 2021, and before that held the Schlesinger Chair for Energy & Geopolitics at the Center for Strategic and international Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC.

From June 2012 through January 2017, he served as head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the data and analysis division of the U.S. Department of Energy.  While awaiting Senate confirmation for the EIA, he was Senior Director for Energy and Environment at the U.S. National Security Council at the White House. Earlier in his career, he was Deutsche Bank’s chief energy economist as well as an integrated oil company analyst, working in Baltimore, London, New York, and Washington.

Sieminski earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Master’s in Public Administration, both from Cornell University.  He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.  He is currently serving on the advisory committee for the nascent KAPSARC School of Public Policy as well as on the curriculum advisory committee for Cornell’s Brooks School of Public Policy.