Peter Tertzakian (born 1961) is an economist and author. He is the deputy director of the ARC Energy Research Institute, a managing director of energy-focused

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ARC Financial Corporation, and the creator of Energyphile, a multimedia project on energy. His books examine economic, environmental and geopolitical pressures on the transformation of the global energy sector.

Education and qualifications

Tertzakian has an undergraduate degree in

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, and a graduate degree in

Econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

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University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

, U.K. He also holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the

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. Tertzakian is an Adjunct Professor with the Haskayne School of Business at the

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Career

Tertzakian has written two bestsellers — ''A Thousand Barrels a Second'' and ''The End of Energy Obesity'' — and in 2020 launched his new project, energyphile.org, and book, ''The Investor Visit and Other Stories: Disruption, Denial and Transition in the Energy Business''. In 2015 Tertzakian was seconded to the four-person Royalty Review Panel for the province of Alberta — the world’s eighth largest producer of oil and gas — where he led the redesign of the fiscal policy. In 2016 he was inducted into the Alberta Petroleum Hall of Fame and in 2021, he joined the Institute of Sustainable Finance Advisory Board and became the Chair of the board of Contemporary Calgary Art Gallery.

Published works

*
The Investor Visit and Other Stories: Disruption, Denial and Transition in the Energy Business''
(2020). ; . * '' A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World'' (2006). ; . * '' The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow'' (2009). ; .

References

External links

Official website for Peter Tertzakian's Energyphile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tertzakian, Peter Living people Writers from Calgary Writers from Saskatoon University of Alberta alumni Alumni of the University of Southampton MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Canadian political writers Canadian columnists Non-fiction environmental writers People in the petroleum industry Canadian geophysicists Canadian people of Armenian descent Energy economists 1961 births