Enver Masud is founder and CEO of The Wisdom Fund, and
recipient of the 2002 Gold Award
from the Human Rights Foundation for his book The War on Islam. He is also a contributing
author of Islam: Opposing Viewpoints, and 9/11 and American Empire: Christians, Jews, and Muslims Speak Out.
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
The Washington Post, 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.
His father M. N. Masud - a descendant of Shah Waliullah, worked with Maulana Azad, Nehru, and
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 with Mother Teresa, and is descended from Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of India's first Muslim university.
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