Professor Raphael J. Heffron

Professor Raphael J. Heffron is Professor and Dean at the College of Law at Abu Dhabi University. He is an international expert on law and commerce in the areas of climate change, sustainability, energy and just transition public policy issues. Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law and in 2020, he was appointed as Senior Counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium). He is a graduate of both Oxford (MSc-Christ Church) and Cambridge (MPhil-Darwin & PhD-Trinity Hall) Universities (UK). 

 Professor Heffron's work has featured in the Top-2% Stanford-Elsevier Scientist List since 2020 and the Top-1% in Clarvariate. He has published over 200 publications of different types and is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide for energy and just transition law and public policy (7000+ Scopus/13,500+ Googlescholar) with translated work in multiple languages including Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic and Persian. Professor Heffron has given just over 220 keynotes/guest lectures in 70 countries.