Dr. Tobias Zumbraegel is a senior researcher and lecturer at the department for Human Geography at Heidelberg University. Prior to this, he worked at the center for excellence Climate, Climatic Change and Society (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg where he is an associate fellow. He is student of history, political science, and the Middle East, and holds a PhD from the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. Zumbraegel is the author of Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies (Palgrave, 2022). Zumbraegel’s main research focuses on questions of legitimacy, power, and state authority in the Middle East.