Mo’s Star 20 Years on with Mahnaz Malik

Mahnaz Malik FRGS (Mahnaz; Urdu: مہناز ملک; born 4 February 1977) is a British-Pakistani barrister, arbitrator, and author. She is involved with improving co-operation between Pakistan and the UK and the US. She obtained European and UK funding to establish a project to give legal assistance to children detained in Pakistan. She specializes in complex international disputes involving investors and states. Malik is a Partner Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, a visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute and a Governing Body Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge. She is also one of the seven external judges on the World Bank Sanctions Board.

Alexandra joined Bloomsbury in 1999 and was Editor-in-Chief for 20 years. Her list of Nobel, Booker, Women’s Prize-winning and bestselling authors includes Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Madeline Miller, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif and Patti Smith. She is on the Advisory Board of the Bradford Literature Festival, a Patron of Index on Censorship, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan Festival. She is writing a memoir, Caravan, to be published in the UK and US in 2027.