Kazi Anis Ahmed

Ahmed's first collection of short stories, Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, was published by The University Press Limited[5] in Bangladesh and launched at the Hay Festival Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2012.[6] Ahmed's first novel, The World in My Hands, was published by Random House India in December 2013. The book is a political satire that charts the fate of two friends – a newspaper editor and a successful property developer – whose relationship is bitterly tested when they find themselves on opposite sides of a crisis that upends their country's social order.[7][8] An early work of Ahmed's, Forty Steps (3 novella), has been published in a bi-langual edition by Bengal Lights. It was translated into Bengali by renowned translator Manabendra Bandyopadhyay.

Ahmed is a Director of the Gemcon Group, which was founded by his father, Kazi Shahed Ahmed, 1979.[9] He has worked among other projects, for the Kazi and Kazi Tea Estate, Ltd. (KKTE).[10] Ahmed Steered KKTE to emerge as the first successful organic tea estate in Bangladesh. He is co-founder of the Teatulia[11] brand of Kazi and Kazi Tea, which sells in the USA, UK,[12] Japan, China and other markets.[13][14][15]

He is a co-founder of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the same university.

Ahmed is also publisher of the English-language daily newspaper Dhaka Tribune, the Bengali-language online newspaper Bangla Tribune[3] and the literary journal Bengal Lights.[16] Ahmed contributes to international newspapers and journals such as The New York Times,[17] TIME,[18] The Guardian,[19] Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal,[20] and Nikkei Asian Review.,[21] and Politico[22] He has co-curated special issues on Bangladesh in the literary journals Wasafiri and Granta. He wrote the opening essay for the Puterbaugh essay series in World Literature Today in December 2015[23] and was published in the Journal of Asian Studies in 2018.[24]