Kamran Nazeer
British civil servant and author
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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 | |
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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 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) |
| Occupation | Civil servant |
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 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]
Awards and nominations
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]
Selected works
- Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism, ISBN 1-58234-619-4
- "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)
