Born in Montreal, Emmanuel Kattan currently heads the British Council’s “Our Shared Future” initiative in New York. He was previously Head of Communications at the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the Commonwealth Secretary-General’s speechwriter in London, UK. He also worked at the Quebec Delegation in London, where he managed academic relations and student exchange programs. Kattan studied in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and is a graduate of the University of Montreal and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons. "Love Alone" is his first novel.