 From 2006-10 he was principal of Edwardes College in the University of Peshawar; he has taught in the Faculty of Education in the University of Cambridge, where he was also Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge.He is a Chartered Physicist (C Phys), a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS) and has published on ecological and scientific issues in south Asia, and on nuclear power.He was science consultant for the BBC Two Natural History series “Wonders of the Monsoon”.