Education
Ahmed was educated at Wimbledon High School, a girls" independent school in Wimbledon, south London, and read English at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford, between 1986 and 1989.
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Ahmed was educated at Wimbledon High School, a girls" independent school in Wimbledon, south London, and read English at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford, between 1986 and 1989.
She also presented two Proms for British Broadcasting Corporation Four in 2011. On British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3, Ahmed is one of the presenters of Night Waves. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and for The Spectator magazine"s Arts Blog.
She was a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News from 2000 to 2011.
She presented Sunday Morning Live, a topical discussion programme on British Broadcasting Corporation One from 2012 to 2013. Ahmed"s mother Lalita (née Chatterjee, born 1939, Lucknow) worked for the Hindi service of the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service in Bush House.
She recalls that Lucy Mathen, the first female Asian reporter on British Broadcasting Corporation television, who worked on John Craven"s Newsround, was an inspirational figure for her, as was broadcaster Shyama Perera, who was working in Fleet Street at around the same time. Ahmed became a British Broadcasting Corporation news trainee in 1990.
She was a British Broadcasting Corporation journalist until December 1997, working as a news correspondent, a reporter on Newsnight and the Today programme, and a presenter on British Broadcasting Corporation World and British Broadcasting Corporation News 24.
In June 2011 Ahmed left Channel 4, and went freelance. The report was made after ActionAid contacted her about their campaign against homophobic crime. From June 2012, she has presented the third series of Sunday Morning Live on British Broadcasting Corporation One.
In October 2012, Ahmed succeeded Ray Snoddy as presenter of Newswatch on the British Broadcasting Corporation News channel.
She is a Visiting Professor of Journalism at Kingston University and a regular contributor to The Big Issue.
Shortly after her marriage, she became the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Los Angeles correspondent and covered the OJ Simpson trial, before working as an anchor and political correspondent in Berlin for Deutsche Welle television Since October 2011 she has been a regular newspaper reviewer on Lorraine.