Rob Sobhani is an Iranian-American author and lecturer on energy issues, U.S. immigration policies and U.S. policy toward the Middle East, Formerly a professor at Georgetown University, Sobhani is currently the president and founder of Caspian Energy Consulting, a company that specializes in working with companies that have business interests in the United States, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Sobhani has published one book on immigration: Press 2 for English: Fix Immigration, Save America, and two books on foreign affairs: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia: A Leader of Consequence and The Pragmatic Entente: Israeli-Iranian Relations, 1948-1988. Sobhani ran as an Independent candidate for the United States Senate in Maryland in 2012.