He has been interviewed on radio and television
, and given talks in the U.S., India, Malawi, and South Africa -- a total of more than 100 events. His commentary on major events affecting the Muslim world
has been published in newspapers and magazines including Eastern Times, Islamic
Horizons, The Minaret, Weekly Mirror, Tehran Times, Middle East Times, Jordan Times,
Nation and the World (India), Impact International (UK), New Dawn (Australia),
Sunday Times (S. Africa).
Mr. Masud has worked as an engineering management consultant
for the World Bank, EBRD and USAID in Albania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia,
Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, Tanzania. He was at the forefront of innovation in the
electric power industry, and managed the U.S. Department of Energy's National Power
Grid Study. For his efforts to expose waste in the electricity sector he was the
subject of TV, radio, newspaper reports including one by nationally syndicated
columnist Jack
Anderson.
He has BS and MS degrees from the University of Oklahoma, a BS from St. Stephens
College in New Delhi, India, and has been on the Advisory Panel of the
international journal Electric Power Systems Research.
Enver's father M. N. Masud
-- a descendant of Shah Waliullah, worked with
Maulana Azad, Pandit Nehru, and (briefly) Mahatma Gandhi, was ambassador to Saudi
Arabia, a UNESCO Mission Chief, and an Olympic gold medallist. His mother Atiya Fatima was a volunteer social worker, educator, worked
briefly with Mother Teresa, and is descended from Sir
Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of India's first Muslim
university.