Kamran Nazeer
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Emran Mian Template:Postnominals (born 1978), who writes under the pen name Kamran Nazeer, is a British Pakistani author and civil servant.[1][2]
Life and career
Nazeer was born as Emran Mian in Glasgow, and was diagnosed with autism at the age of four.[3] He studied law in Glasgow, but after deciding not to become a lawyer, he then went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for his PhD and finally joined the British civil service as a policy adviser in Whitehall.[4][5] He now lives in London with his French wife. He is currently Director General for Digital Technologies and Telecoms at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).[6]
His first book, Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism, was published in March 2006 under his penname.[3] He is also a frequent contributor to Prospect magazine.[7]
Awards and nominations
Mian was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours[8] and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to regeneration.[9]
In January 2014, Mian was nominated for the Civil Servant of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards.[10]
Selected works
- Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism, Template:ISBN
- "The Curious Case of Exclusionary Reasons", Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Volume XV, Number 1 (January 2002) pp. 99–124
- "Mandarin intellectuals", Prospect (July 2006)
References
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Writers from Glasgow
- Scottish people of Pakistani descent
- Civil servants from Glasgow
- 21st-century Scottish civil servants
- British writers of Pakistani descent
- Autistic writers
- British writers with disabilities
- Scottish people with disabilities
- Companions of the Order of the Bath