Emran Mian CB OBE (born 1978), who writes under the pen name Kamran Nazeer, is a British Pakistani author and civil servant. [1] [2]
Emran Mian CB OBE (born 1978), who writes under the pen name Kamran Nazeer, is a British Pakistani author and civil servant. [1] [2]
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 was Director General for Digital Technologies and Telecoms at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). [6] but in July 2025 became the Permanent Secretary.
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]
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]
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