Jonas Bergan Draege is a PhD researcher in the Department of Social and Political Science at the European University Institute. His PhD project focuses on the relationship between pro-democracy movements and political parties in hybrid regimes. Bergan Draege earned his Mphil with distinction in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford, in 2013.

His MPhil research focused on the exiled Syrian political opposition. He was a visiting researcher at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul in 2012. He has also acted as an adviser for numerous NGOs focusing on Syria. His working languages are English, Norwegian, Arabic, Turkish, and Italian.