Timsal Masud is a curriculum consultant for the Hindi Urdu Flagship Programme at the University of Austin in Texas where he's involved in the development of multimedia classroom and testing materials. He has MAs in Persian and Urdu literature and a PhD in Urdu from the University of Lucknow in India. He has translated a series of books and lectures (including The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) and is the author of a number of books on Urdu language and literature.