Sebastian Kohn

Sebastian Kohn is program coordinator for the Equality and Citizenship Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Based in the New York office, Kohn holds a master's degree in conflict, security, and development from King's College London. He also has a bachelor's degree in international relations and history from the London School of Economics.

At the Justice Initiative, Kohn’s work focuses on statelessness and the right to nationality. He carries out research on the dimensions and scale of statelessness around the world, and advocates in favor of an affirmative right to nationality for all people, as well as better protections for those who are stateless.

Kohn’s primary areas of interest and expertise are children’s right to nationality, methodologies for researching stateless populations, addressing the right to nationality through the United Nations system, and comparative nationality law and practices in Africa.