Napier Collyns

Napier Collyns is a co-founder and member of the Global Business Network. He is a former senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the New York Mercantile Exchange.

He is perhaps best known for his 30 years of work in the oil industry, and his work as part of a small team at Royal Dutch/Shell Group that worked in the 1970s under Pierre Wack. This team developed the concept of scenario planning for commercial organizations. He also served as a consultant on former colleague Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize–winning work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power.

Collyns resides in New York, Berkeley, California, and London.