MIHIR BOSE has had a rich and varied journalistic career for more than 30 years. He was born in 1947, just before Indian independence, and was brought up in Bombay. He came to England in 1969 to study and qualified as a chartered accountant.
Almost immediately he took to his first love of journalism and writing. He has written for all the major papers in Britain, having worked for the Sunday Times for 20 years before moving to the Daily Telegraph in 1995 to specialise in investigative sports reporting, particularly the growing field of sports business and politics. In 2007 he was appointed as the first BBC Sports Editor.
He has won several awards for his newspaper writing including Business Columnist of the Year, Sports Reporter of the Year and Sports Story of the Year.
He has written over 22 books which have been controversial and wide-ranging. His History of Indian Cricket was the first book by an Indian writer to win the prestigious Cricket Society Literary Award in 1990. His study of sports and apartheid, Sporting Colours, was runner-up in the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
He served on the Budd Committee which reported to the British Home Office on the subject of gambling and provided the basis for the new United Kingdom gambling legislation.
He is a frequent lecturer and public speaker.
Mihir lives in west London with his wife, Caroline Cecil, who runs a financial PR consultancy. He has a daughter, Indira.