Dr. James Henderson is Director of Energy Transition Research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES). He joined the OIES in 2010 as Director of Natural Gas Programme and also served as a Senior Research Fellow, exploring the Russian oil and gas industries and their place in the global energy economy.

With the OIES he has written numerous books, book chapters, academic papers and other research on the energy sector including “The Russian Gas Matrix: How Markets are Driving Change.”

He is a Visiting Professor at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and at the College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw, and has lectured on energy economics and security of supply at a number of universities in Europe and the US.

He is an Oxford University graduate and holds a Ph.D in Social Sciences and Russian Energy from University College London.