Sophie Zinser

Sophie is a Schwarzman Academy Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme and Middle East North Africa Programme at Chatham House, the Royal Institute for International Affairs. She provides analysis on China’s role in the Middle East and South and Central Asia, with a particular focus on the US’s role in the burgeoning China-Middle East relationship. She also works on forced labor and migration issues in the Middle East and Asia. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Amman, Jordan, and Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, from which he holds a master’s degree in global affairs. She worked for five years on policy issues across the Middle East and Asia with both United Nations and grassroots organizations.