Background
Born in London in 1967, his father Hassan Masood worked in actuarial science and his mother Shamsa Masood is a writer of short fiction in Urdu.
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Ehsan Masood
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He went to schools in York, Karachi and London. Studied applied physics at Portsmouth Polytechnic and science communication at Birkbeck, University of London.
Career
He is the editor of Research Fortnight and teaches international science policy at Imperial College London. He worked for the journal Nature as a writer from 1995 to 1999 and again as acting chief commissioning editor in 2008/2009. He has also worked as Opinion Editor of New Scientist and communications director at LEAD International.
Masood has also written for Prospect magazine and openDemocracy.net, as well as The Times, The Guardian and Le Monde.
He is a trustee of Leadership for Environment and Development and also advises the British Council on science and on cultural relations. Ehsan Masood is a regular panellist on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s environmental affairs programme Home Planet Science, Development, Faith Ehsan"s Open Democracy columns Ehsan Masood talks about Dry: Life Without Water on Start the Week on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 29 May 2006 Televised discussion on climate security at Carleton University, Canada with John Ashton, Simon Dalby and hosted by Ken Rockburn of CPAC"s Talk Politics show, February 2007.
