Energy Policymaking in a Cross-national Comparison Energy Resources, Policy Processes and Law

Professor Patrice Geoffron is a Professor of Economics at Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, Paris, France. His research focuses on the convergence between electricity and telecommunications as part of the low-carbon energy transition and in the economic evaluation of climate action, particularly for industrial companies and infrastructure operators. He was a member of the World Council of the International Energy Economics Association and of the team of experts that supported the Citizens' Climate Convention. He is co-editor of the journal Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Management and Network Economics . He has been a visiting professor at a number of foreign institutions and has widely cited articles in various journals in the field of energy economics and policy. He is a member of various scientific councils: CEA, CRE, Engie.

Lorna A. Greening has well over 40 years of experience in the energy industry, including research, academia, consulting, the public utility industry, and the petroleum industry as an exploration geologist. Currently, she is a Fellow at the Center for Energy, Transportation and Environmental Policy housed at the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Her research interests include energy supply and demand, energy efficiency measures and other greenhouse gas mitigation options, energy and climate economics and policy, and environmental regulation nationally and internationally. She has published in Energy Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Energy Policy, Energy , and other publications. She has served on the Advisory Board (2006-2013) and Editor (2013-2015) of Energy Policy; and as Associate Editor and a member of the Board of Energy Economics .

Raphael J. Heffron is Dean and Professor in Energy, Corporate and Commercial Law, at Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates. He is an international expert on climate change, sustainability and just transition public policy issues. His work has a focus on achieving a sustainable and just transition to a low-carbon economy, and combines a mix of governance, management, policy and economics. He has published over 200 publications of different types with translated work in multiple languages. His work has appeared in top-tier journals in the areas of energy, law and public policy, and is widely cited in those areas. Prior to his current position, he was Professor in Energy Justice & The Social Contract at the Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in France and served as Jean Monnet Professor in the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy awarded by the European Commission (2019-2022). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc-Christ Church) and Cambridge (MPhil-Darwin & PhD-Trinity Hall) Universities (UK).