Sohrab Sobhani (born February 14, 1960) is an 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 Chairman and Chief Executive of Caspian Group, a company that specializes in working with companies that have business interests in the United States, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.
He is the founder and CEO of Sparo Corporation.
Sobhani serves on the Board of Z Advanced Computing (ZAC).
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 against Republican nominee Daniel Bongino, Libertarian Dean Ahmad, and Democratic incumbent Ben Cardin.
He received 16.4 percent of the vote, beating the state's all-time mark for an independent or third-party candidate.
Senator Cardin was re-elected with 56% of the vote, with the Republican candidate capturing 26.3% of the total.