Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui

Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui is Professor of Law and Director of COAST – Research Center for Climate, Energy and Sustainability Law at the University of Bergen. He specializes in offshore energy, market regulation and new energy technologies. His PhD thesis, “Buyer Power in EU Competition Law,” received the 2017 Concurrences Award for best thesis in Competition Law & Economics and was awarded the Meltzer Prize for Young Researchers in 2017 at the University of Bergen. He is the author of over 60 publications and edited the Routledge Handbook of Energy Law (2020), the Elgar Offshore Wind Licensing book (2024), the Elgar Research Handbook on EU Competition Law and the Energy Transition (2025), and Bloomsbury/Hart’s Offshore Energy Law Challenges and Opportunities for Renewables and Hydrocarbons (2025).