DR TADE OYEWUNMI

Dr. Tade Oyewunmi is an Assistant Professor of Law and Senior Energy Research Fellow at the Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE), Vermont Law School (VLS), Vermont, USA. He specializes and teaches in the areas of energy resources law and policy, which includes the legal and contractual framework for energy supply projects such as gas-to-power, LNG, wind (onshore and offshore), and solar power projects. Dr. Oyewunmi also has extensive experience as an Attorney and Legal Advisor on Nigerian and international commercial dispute resolution, international oil and gas transactions, licensing, and regulatory compliance matters. He served as a legal aide to the Nigerian oil and gas sector reform and implementation committee’s (OGIC) legal and regulatory sub-committee between 2007-2008. 

Before now, Dr. Oyewunmi was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Tulane Center for Energy Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, USA. At Tulane, he taught specialized seminars relating to the West African Gas Pipeline and other cross-border energy projects as part of the International and Comparative Energy Law program. He was also a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in International Energy Law and Policy at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, Joensuu, Finland between 2013-2018. His book titled ‘Regulating Gas Supply to Power Markets: Transnational Approaches to Competitiveness and Security of Supply’ (Wolters Kluwer, 2018) examines the role of law and institutions in the process of developing gas and electricity markets in the US, EU, and Nigeria. He has other publications and taught seminars addressing issues such as decarbonization and the energy industry, domestic gas utilization in Nigeria, the development of gas-to-power markets in West Africa, energy industry reforms, stabilization, and renegotiation of Production Sharing Contracts.    

Dr. Oyewunmi is currently an Associate Editor of the Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL) Journal and an Academic Advisory Board member at the Institute for Energy Law (IEL) of the Center for American and International Law. He is also 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. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (2004) and Master of Laws (oil and gas) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (2011). He obtained his Doctor of Laws (LL.D) with Distinction at the UEF Law School, Finland in 2017.