Shahab Anam

Anam Shahab is an economist for a public policy consulting firm and
has been writing poetry since the age of ten. A Commonwealth Scholar
at the University of Cambridge, Anam completed her MPhil and
postgraduate diploma in Economics, and then spent a year conducting research and teaching undergraduates. She also holds a first-class degree in economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi.
Her poem, 'Grey Minds and Dark Times', written after the Mumbai terrorist attacks, has previously appeared in the Times of India. She was the founder-editor of the Cambridge Economist, a student magazine in its fourth year now and running successfully. She lives in London.