Romain Chuffart
Visiting stay: September 2024
Romain Chuffart is the Nansen Professor in Arctic Studies (2024 and 2025) at the University of Akureyri in Iceland where he specializes in the rights of Indigenous peoples, international human rights law, international environmental law, and the law of the sea as applied to the Arctic. Romain also conducts more theoretical research on public international law combining insights from political theory, international relations, geopolitics and geography. He has taught courses in public international law, human rights, and Arctic law and policy. Romain holds a PhD in law from Durham University in the United Kingdom.
Since 2022, he has served as president and managing director of The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies, a nonprofit organization (501c3) headquartered in Washington, D.C. with a team of researchers across the world. Romain is also a member of the American Society of International Law.