Raphael Heffron

Raphael Heffron is a Visiting Professor in Energy Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and holds the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair in Energy & Natural Resources Law (awarded by the European Commission). He also serves as Visiting Professor at the International Hellenic University (Greece) and Associate Researcher at the University of Cambridge's Energy Policy Research Group. His career includes academic roles at the Universities of Leeds, Stirling, and Cambridge, alongside visiting positions at MIT, University of Texas at Austin, and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law.

Heffron holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, an LLM from the University of St. Andrews, and a law degree from Trinity College Dublin. As a trained barrister, he combines legal expertise with interdisciplinary research across energy law, policy, and economics. His work focuses on energy infrastructure development, electricity markets, energy justice, nuclear liability, and Arctic energy governance.

Heffron has secured funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program, ESRC, and EPSRC, and consults for the World Bank and London think tanks. His research has been cited over 200 times in two years and appears in journals like Energy Policy and Nature Energy. He co-chairs the UK Energy Law and Policy Association and edits the International Energy Law Review.

Recent research highlights include the GATEWAY project (examining CO2 transport for carbon capture), energy justice frameworks, and global nuclear liability regimes. He supervises PhD students on international energy law and policy issues.