K Anis Ahmed grew up in Dhaka and studied at Brown, Washington and New York Universities. He has published two collections of short fiction and a novel (in the US, Bangladesh and India). Ahmed is the publisher of Dhaka Tribune, a national daily, a co-director of Dhaka Lit Fest, a co-founder of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and the current President of PEN Bangladesh. His opeds have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian/Observer, Financial Times, among other places. Ahmed divides his time between Dhaka and Dubai.