Dr. Tobias Zumbrägel is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the department for Human Geography at Heidelberg University. He is also affiliated with the center for excellence Climate, Climatic Change and Society (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg and a researcher at CARPO, Bonn. He studied History, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies in Cologne, Tuebingen and Cairo. and holds a Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Zumbrägel is the author of Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies (Palgrave 2022).