Llewelyn Hughes

Welcome!

I am an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU). I am also Research Director for GR-Japan, a government affairs and public policy consultancy focused on the Japanese market (http://grjapan.com/). You can find me on LinkedIn and Twitter, or feel free to drop me an email.

In my academic work I am interested in how public policies affect, and are affected by, energy markets. In 2014 my book Globalizing Oil was published through the Business and Public Policy series with Cambridge University Press. In it I examined why industrialised countries transformed the policies they used to manage energy security risks in oil markets over the 1980s and 1990s, including detailed case chapters on France, Japan, and the United States.

More recently I have begun to investigate how and why energy policies are changing in response to the problem of climate change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. An ongoing project examines how the rise of Global Value Chains affect the ability of governments to promote green growth industries, beginning with photovoltaics and next-generation vehicles. The project has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the East-West Centre, and the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. A second project examines how exposure to extreme weather events affects beliefs in climate change.

My work is published or forthcoming in Annual Review of Political Science, Climatic Change, Energy Policy and the Social Sciences, Environmental Science & Policy, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of East Asian Studies, and other academic journals, as well as in numerous policy outlets. Many are available for download from my website, or from ResearchGate.

In my academic career I previously worked at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington DC, and before that the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. I have also been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, the Environmental Policy Research Centre (Forschungszentrums für Umweltpolitik) at Freie Universität, the Centre of Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials (CGEMP) at Université Paris Dauphine, Tokyo Foundation, Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), and the Japan Institute for Energy Economics (IEEJ).