Aylin Junga is an Economic Research Assistant at the Sana’a Center. She has been researching the Middle East, and Yemen in particular, for over a decade. Studying Islamic Studies and Political Science (BA) at Heidelberg University, she also worked at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK), the German Federal Foreign Office, and the United Nations Department for Peace Operations (DPO). She holds an MSc in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).