Emran Mian | |
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| Permanent Secretary of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | |
| Assumed office July 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Minister | Peter Kyle Liz Kendall |
| Preceded by | Sarah Munby |
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| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Civil servant |
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] and in July 2025 became the Permanent Secretary of the department. [7]
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. [8]
Mian was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours [9] and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to regeneration. [10]
In January 2014,Mian was nominated for the Civil Servant of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards. [11]
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