Winners
| 2025 | Richard Schmalensee Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2024 | James Smith Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business |
| 2023 | Adnan Shihab-Eldin OPEC and Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
| 2022 | Stephen Littlechild Cambridge Judge Business School |
| 2021 | Hoesung Lee Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| 2020 | No award given |
| 2019 | Ian Perry International Monetary Fund |
| 2018 | Jean-Michael Glachant Florence School of Regulation EUI Adonis Yatchew University of Toronto |
| 2017 | John Weyant Stanford University |
| 2016 | Richard O’Neill Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| 2015 | Severin Borenstein University of California, Berkeley |
| 2014 | James D. Hamilton University of California, San Diego |
| 2013 | Carol A. Dahl Colorado School of Mines |
| 2012 | Daniel Yergin IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates |
| 2011 | Williams D. Nordhaus Yale University |
| 2010 | No award given |
| 2009 | Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics |
| 2008 | James L. Sweeney Stanford University |
| 2007 | Rejendra Pachauri Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| 2006 | Jacques Percebois Universite de Montpellier |
| 2005 | William W. Hogan Harvard University |
| 2004 | Fatih Birol International Energy Agency |
| 2003 | Paul L. Joskow Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2002 | David Newbery University of Cambridge |
| 2001 | James T. Jensen Jensen Associates Inc. |
| 2000 | A. Denny Ellerman Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1999 | No award given |
| 1998 | Colin Robinson Institute of Economic Affairs |
| 1997 | Robert S. Pindyck Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1996 | Michael Hoel University of Oslo |
| 1995 | Yves Smeers Catholic University of Louvain |
| 1994 | Dale Jorgensen Harvard University |
| 1993 | Walter Mead University of California |
| 1992 | Richard L. Gordon Pennsylvania State University |
| 1991 | Peter R. Odell Erasmus University |
| 1990 | Robert E. Mabro Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
| 1989 | Jose Goldemberg University of Sao Paulo |
| 1988 | Pierre Desprairies Institute Français du Pétrole |
| 1987 | Sheikh Zaki Yamani |
| 1986 | Edith Penrose Mohan Munasinghe The World Bank |
| 1985 | John H. Lichtblau Petroleum Industry Research Associates |
| 1984 | Paul Frankel Petroleum Economics, Ltd. |
| 1983 | Hans Landsberg Resources for the Future |
| 1982 | Morris A. Adelman Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1981 | Sam H. Schurr Electric Power Institute |