Simon Langlois-Bertrand is a professor of international relations and sustainable development at Concordia University in Montreal. With degrees in international affairs, political science, and engineering, his research focuses on energy politics and policy, both with an international perspective and in the North American context. His recent work studied the geopolitics of the energy transition, the evolution of electricity rate structures, the integration of life-cycle thinking in government policy, and the political-institutional barriers to energy efficiency and regional integration in electricity markets. He is the lead author of the Canadian Energy Outlook 2018, published by the Trottier Energy Institute.