Justin Dargin, Ph.D.

The global energy transition is not merely a climate mandate. It is a fundamental restructuring of fiscal stability, state sovereignty, and balance-sheet power across hydrocarbon-producing nations and emerging economies.

Justin Dargin, Ph.D., advises governments, sovereign wealth funds, and multilateral institutions on transition architecture, sovereign carbon finance, and strategic energy infrastructure. He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Chairman of Tangelic, an emerging-market climate investment platform. He is a former Senior Scholar at the University of Oxford and a Middle East–North Africa Fulbright Scholar. His advisory mandates and institutional engagements include OPEC, Shell, the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, the World Bank, and the United Nations.

His research and strategic counsel have provided foundational frameworks for Gulf energy transition policy, sovereign carbon markets, and cross-border gas integration. At Harvard University’s Belfer Center, he authored the first published blueprints for Gulf carbon-market development and the first policy framework diagnosing the UAE domestic natural gas crisis, earning the Harvard University Arab Alumni Association Award. At the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, he published the first definitive study of the Dolphin Project, pioneering the substantive analysis of transnational Gulf gas trade and infrastructure geopolitics. At the Middle East Council on Global Affairs in Doha, he conceived and launched the Gulf Climate Leadership Initiative, convening its inaugural strategic roundtable with Gulf energy ministries, international energy executives, and sovereign stakeholders.

He is the author or editor of five books on global energy and state transformation, including The Gulf’s Climate Reckoning (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and the forthcoming Sovereignty by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2027). He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and an LL.M., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. He is fluent in Arabic, with professional proficiency in Spanish.