Dr. Sebastian Sons

Senior Researcher

Organisation: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO)
Country: Germany
Institution type: Academic and think tank

Biography

Professional biography

Dr. Sebastian Sons is a Senior Researcher at CARPO. His work focuses mainly on the socio-economic and political transformations in the Gulf states. In his doctoral thesis, he analysed media discourses on labour migration from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia.

Previously, he was an adviser for GIZ, Head of Research at the German Orient Institute in Berlin and a researcher at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He has published three books on politics, economy and society in the Gulf region.

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