Thijs Van de Graaf is Assistant Professor of International Politics at the Ghent Institute for International Studies, Ghent University, where he studies and teaches global energy politics and international relations.
He is the lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy (2016) and author of The Politics and Institutions of Global Energy Governance (Palgrave, 2013).
His research has appeared in journals such as Global Environmental Politics, World Development, Energy Policy, British Journal of Political Science, and Climatic Change.
Thijs is working on a new book, Global Energy Politics, for Polity Press and is currently a member of the IRENA support team with the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation.