Randel Young

Randel R. Young is Executive Director of the Tulane Energy Law & Policy Center at Tulane Law School. Randel co-chairs the Center’s Global Research Council.

Randel brings to the Center 45 years of experience in the energy industry, where he has held senior energy industry leadership positions, including as energy law practice leader at global law firms, regional general counsel with deep experience in emerging energy markets, and, most recently, as a senior commercial energy consultant at Charles River Associates (CRA), a global economic consulting firm based in Boston and London.

As a senior executive, regional general counsel, cross-border project lawyer, and strategic business advisor, Randel has advised on hundreds of energy infrastructure, and natural resource transactions and disputes throughout North America, Latin America, the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. His oil and gas and other energy project experience spans the upstream, midstream, downstream, and related infrastructure and service sectors, and he has experience on conventional and renewable power projects and project financing, in the U.S. and globally.