Kamran Nazeer was born of itinerant Pakistani parents and has lived in New York, Jeddah, Islamabad, and Glasgow. He studied law but decided not to become a lawyer. By the time he completed his Ph.D. thesis, he had decided not to become an academic. On leaving Cambridge, he was recruited into Her Majesty’s Service and works as a policy adviser in Whitehall. He has published work in U.K. newspapers and magazines.