Mohsin Hamid makes public appearances to speak on topics ranging from literature, the arts, and culture, to migration, technology, business, and politics.
In addition to his practice as a novelist and essayist, he studied international affairs at Princeton and law at Harvard, worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York and at Wolff Olins in London, was involved in starting a music technology company in the UK, helped establish the Lahore Literary Festival and the Lahore Biennale, and has lectured and taught pro bono at schools and universities in Pakistan. This background shapes and informs his public appearances.
He has spoken at universities around the world such as Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and the National University of Singapore; at festivals such as the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Jaipur Literary Festival, and the Melbourne Writers Festival; at government and intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the US State Department; and at corporate events for firms such as GSV Ventures and Baillie Gifford.
Mohsin Hamid's speaker's page can be found here:
https://www.harrywalker.com/speakers/mohsin-hamid
He can be contacted through his agent, Jay Mandel at WME, New York. Email: jman [at] wmeagency [dot] com.
Selected past speaking engagements:
2023
Sun Valley Writers Conference, USA
GSV Ventures, USA
Incroci di Civilita, Italy
Passa Pora/International Cities of Refuge Network, Belgium
Lahore Literary Festival, Lahore
Emirates Festival of Literature, UAE
2022
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
Antidote/Sydney Opera House, Australia
Melbourne Book Fair, Australia
Baillie Gifford, UK
Edinburgh International Book Festival, UK
2021
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
New York University, USA
Georgetown University, USA
Smith College, USA
2020
University of California Berkeley, USA
Chicago Public Library, USA
2019
Brown University, USA
University of Minnesota, USA
2018
Southbank Centre, UK
Duke University, USA
Pomona College, USA
Literary Arts Portland, USA
Deerfield Academy, USA
Just Buffalo Literary Center, USA
Winternachten/Den Haag, Netherlands
2017
Princeton University, USA
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
New Yorker Festival, USA
Stockholm Literature/Moderna Museet, Sweden
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