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Mohsin Zaidi

Executive & Author, Hakluyt & Co

The keynote speaker and management consultant penned a best-selling coming-of-age memoir about growing up queer in a devout Muslim family.

Mohsin Zaidi

Mohsin Zaidi is an award-winning author and barrister; now working as a management consultant at Hakluyt & Co. His critically acclaimed memoir on sexuality, race and class, A Dutiful Boy (Penguin,2020), won a Lambda Literary award and was named a Guardian, GQ and New Statesman Book of the Year. The book, which is currently being adapted for screen, is described by The Guardian as “a profound meditation on the power of the human heart, providing a lesson of acceptance for us all, and for the future of our multicultural society.” The Times says it is a book that will save lives.

An advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation and social mobility, Mohsin sits on the board of Stonewall and is listed by The Financial Times as a top future LGBT leader. A regular commentator on Sky News, he also writes for the Guardian, CNN Style, the i newspaper, Bustle, Mr Porter and Newsweek. He was recently listed in The Lawyer magazine Hot 100 and Attitude magazine named him a trailblazer changing the world.

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LOCATIONUnited Kingdom
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