Kamran Nazeer

Emran Mian
CB OBE
Mian in 2024
Permanent Secretary of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
In office
July 2025 – July 2026
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
MinisterPeter Kyle
Liz Kendall
Preceded bySarah Munby
Succeeded bydepartment abolished
Personal details
Born1978 (age 47–48)
OccupationCivil servant
Websitegov.uk/government/people/emran-mian

Emran Mian CB OBE (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 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][10] and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to regeneration.[11]

In January 2014, Mian was nominated for the Civil Servant of the Year award at the British Muslim Awards.[12]

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)

References

  1. ↑ "Nazeer, Kamran". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Autistes : Quels métiers pour améliorer leur insertion professionnelle ?". Lesechos.fr. 16 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 Yow, Ann E. (14 April 2006). ""Send In the Idiots": Bonded by autism — a class reunion". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008.
  4. ↑ Ree, Jonathan (24 August 2006). "Send in the Idiots, by Kamran Nazeer". The Independent. Archived from the original on 10 April 2007.
  5. ↑ "Kamran Nazeer". Bloomsberg.com.
  6. ↑ "Emran Mian". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "New Permanent Secretary at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology". GOV.UK.
  8. ↑ "Articles written by Kamran Nazeer". Prospect-magazine.co.uk.
  9. ↑ United Kingdom: "No. 59808". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 10 June 2011. p. 11.
  10. ↑ "Queen's birthday honours list: OBE". TheGuardian.com. 10 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "No. 64082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2023. p. B3.
  12. ↑ "British Muslim Awards 2014 winners". Asian Image. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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