Mohsin Zaidi is an award-winning author, commentator, and lawyer. His memoir, A Dutiful Boy (Penguin, 2020), received critical acclaim and was named a Book of the Year by the Guardian, GQ, and New Statesman. It also won the Lambda Literary Award. The Guardian praised it as a profound meditation on cultural contradictions and acceptance, while The Times described it as a life-saving book.

The first from his school to attend Oxford University, Mohsin qualified as a lawyer at the international firm Linklaters and is now a criminal barrister at a leading chamber in England. He has worked at a UN War Crimes tribunal in The Hague and served as a Judicial Assistant to Lord Sumption and Lord Wilson at the UK Supreme Court.

An advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation, and social mobility, Mohsin sits on the board of Stonewall and is recognised by The Financial Times as a top future LGBT leader. He regularly comments on Sky News and writes for CNN Style, The i Newspaper, Bustle, Mr Porter, and Newsweek. Recently, he was listed in The Lawyer Magazine Hot 100 and named a trailblazer by Attitude magazine.