Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil industry expert. She is a policy-analyst, author and activist. Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (Wiley 2011), The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It (HarperCollins 2008), for which she received the 2009 San Francisco Library Laureate Award, and The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (HarperCollins 2006).

Juhasz founded the Energy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights non-profit organization, and directed the program from July 2009 to July 2011. Juhasz is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. She is on the National Advisory Committee of Iraq Veterans Against the War and on the Board of Directors of Coffee Strong.

Juhasz is the lead author and editor of the 2010 edition of The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report for which she received a 2010 Project Censored Award. She was also lead author and editor of the 2009 edition and is co-editor of the May 2011 edition.

Juhasz is contributing author with John Perkins and others to A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (Berrett-Koehler, 2007). She is also a contributing author to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: a Better World is Possible, 2nd Edition (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004).

An award winning writer, her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Petroleum Review Magazine, Washington Post, Cambridge University Review of International Relations Journal, Roll Call, The Daily Mirror – Zimbabwe and The Star – Johannesburg. Juhasz is a frequent media commentator. She was featured in the CNBC documentary, "The Hunt for Black Gold," and has appeared on shows including, MSNBC, BBC TV and Radio, Kudlow & Company, The Business Hour with Neil P. Cavuto, Hannity & Colmes, C-Span’s Book TV and Washington Journal, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, To The Point, Marketplace, Bloomberg Radio News, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, among many others.

Juhasz was proud to provide testimony at the Iraq Veterans Against the War--Winter Soldier:Iraq & Afghanistan in Silver Spring, Maryland in March 2008; at the Citizens Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq in support of Lt. Ehren Watada in Tacoma, Washington in January 2007; and to the New York Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq in May 2004 on the economic invasion of Iraq by the United States.

Juhasz worked as a Legislative Assistant in Washington, DC for two U.S. Members of Congress – John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD). Juhasz was the Project Director of the International Forum on Globalization, called “One of the most serious and respected groups of experts dedicated to analyzing and generating alternative proposals to the prevailing economic model promoted by international financial agencies,” by La Jornada of Mexico.

Peace Action named Juhasz to the Women Peacemakers Honor Roll, “For women who have made a unique and lasting contribution to work for peace and justice in the world" in July 30, 2007. In 2004, she was awarded “The Sentinel” by the Nevada Alliance for Workers Rights, “For those who have engaged in a lifelong activism.”

Juhasz  holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelors Degree in Public Policy from Brown University.