Mohsin Zaidi

Mohsin Zaidi is an award-winning author, commentator and lawyer. His critically acclaimed memoir — A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of Secrets, Lies and Family Love (Penguin, 2020) — won the Lambda Literary Award and the Polari First Book Prize. It was also named a Guardian, GQ and New Statesman Book of the Year.

The first person from his school to go to Oxford University, Mohsin qualified as a lawyer at international firm Linklaters, and is currently a criminal barrister at one of the top chambers in England. He has also previously worked at a UN War Crimes tribunal in The Hague and as Judicial Assistant to Lord Sumption and Lord Wilson at the UK’s Supreme Court.

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 New York Times, 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.