Profile

Dr. Tade Oyewunmi is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, OR, USA, where he teaches in the areas of energy and international business transactions, sustainable business law and air pollution. Before now, he taught and led research projects in (a) energy policy in a carbon-constrained world and (b) oil and gas development at the Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School, USA. Dr. Oyewunmi was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX, as well as Tulane University Law School's Center for Energy Law, New Orleans, LA where he taught seminars on cross-border energy projects. He served as the lead co-editor for the handbook on Decarbonisation and the Energy Industry, Hart Publishing (November 2020). His monograph is titled Regulating Gas Supply to Power Markets: Transnational Approaches to Competitiveness and Security of Supply, Wolters Kluwer (2018).

Dr. Oyewunmi serves as - Associate Editor of the Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL) Journal, a Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Climate Law and Policy Journal, and an Advisory Board Member at the Institute for Energy Law (IEL) of the Center for American and International Law. He qualified as an Attorney in Nigeria in 2005, practicing in the areas of energy and projects finance, international investment law, commercial transactions, and dispute resolution and served as a legal aide to the legal and regulatory sub-committee of the National Oil and Gas Sector Reform and Implementation Committee (OGIC) in 2007-2009. He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), the Nigerian Association for Energy Economics (NAEE), the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and an International Associate Member of the American Bar Association.