Kamal Ahmed is the Director of Audio, presenter of the Daily T podcast and columnist at The Telegraph.

In 2021 he co-founded The News Movement, a new media business focused on social media channels, new audiences and digital consumption.

Between 2018 and 2021, Kamal was Editorial Director of BBC News and a member of the BBC News Board and the BBC Sounds board. 

Between 2016 and 2018 Kamal was Economics Editor at BBC News. He joined the BBC in April 2014 as Business Editor from the Telegraph Media Group where he was Executive Business Editor.

Between 2007 and 2009 Kamal was Group Director, Communications, at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and before that was Executive Editor, News, at The Observer. Between 2000 and 2004, Kamal was Political Editor of The Observer. He has also worked at The Guardian and Scotland on Sunday.

A Leeds University Graduate in Political Studies, Kamal’s first book, The Life and Times of a Very British Man, was published by Bloomsbury in 2018.