Samira Ahmed

About Samira Ahmed
Corporate Biography

Samira Ahmed is an award winning journalist and broadcaster, and a visiting professor of Journalism at Kingston University.

She presents the BBC1 ethics discussion programme, Sunday Morning Live and Newswatch, shown on BBC1 and BBC News Channel. Samira also presents a range of news and culture programmes on Radio 3 and 4, including Night Waves, The World Tonight and Sunday. She has presented The Proms for BBC4 and writes regularly on culture and politics in newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent. She has a monthly column in The Big Issue.

Samira was previously a presenter and correspondent at Channel 4 News, where she won the Stonewall Broadcast of the Year award for her investigation into rape in South Africa and she made the Channel 4 documentary series "Islam Unveiled" about the status of Muslim women round the world.

She has been a reporter on Radio 4’s Today Programme and Newsnight, where she uncovered a major charity scandal, and was one of the first journalists to investigate the emergence of radical Islam at British universities. She also covered the OJ Simpson case as BBC’s Los Angeles Correspondent.

Her natural competitive streak found an outlet when she won Celebrity Mastermind in 2010.

Samira read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and started her career as a BBC News Trainee.

She speaks German and Hindi/Urdu.

Samira's experience as a conference chair, interviewer and professional moderator include cultural discussions with actors and directors for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the British Film Institute, and also work for the United Nations, and several UK government departments, including The Home Office, the Department for International Development and the Cabinet Office.She has presented the Civil Service awards since their inception 5 years ago, most recently at Buckingham Palace.

Born and brought up in London, where she lives, Samira is involved in a number of charities including the deafblind charity, Sense, the Fawcett Society which campaigns on women's equality and she is patron of 2 London charities - the Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre in Camden and the Kiran women's refuge in Leytonstone.

She gives school talks and lectures regularly on journalism at a number of universities, which have included the London School of Economics, London Metropolitan University and Berlin Brandenburg University.

Her website is www.samiraahmed.co.uk

Contact Agent: info@knightayton.co.uk

Samira's experience as a conference chair, interviewer and professional moderator include cultural discussions with actors and directors for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the British Film Institute, and also work for the United Nations, and several UK government departments, including The Home Office, the Department for International Development and the Cabinet Office. She has presented the Civil Service awards since their inception 5 years ago, most recently at Buckingham Palace.

Recent testimonials include:

Facilitate The Theatres Trust Conference
Thank you for your excellent chairing, it was a real joy to work with you.

Host Discussions at Ecobuild
Your contribution was invaluable and the event as a whole was highly successful.

British Association of Learning Providers
We thought Samira exceeded our expectations in her role as conference chair and she really looked outside the box and ensured that the event was approached in a different way which was superior to previously presenters who had undertaken the role. Thanks so much for a job well done.

Awards ceremony, June 2010
I wanted to drop you a quick note to say a huge thank you for your excellent contribution to our conference yesterday. We had some really positive comments back from delegates –especially with regard to the panel session which was particularly well received. You did an absolutely fantastic job as chair.

Security & Counter-Terrorism Conference
From start to end I thought you added so much to the event. I was so impressed at how quickly you picked up on all the nuances and challenges of the agenda. Your insight was a valuable contribution to the day. I loved working with you – both from a professional and personal angle and I really hope we get the chance to again in the future”

Euro event on Living & Working Conditions
You played a blinder (as we say) with the debate. It was far and away the best one we have had in all four events.

Business in the Community Awards
Thank you so much for last night Samira – you were just brilliant! We’ve had lots of positive comments here today and you really did make a huge contribution to making the night such a success. We thoroughly appreciate all the obvious time and effort you put into the role – it made life so much easier to know the hosting was in such good hands.

Contact Agent: info@knightayton.co.uk

« Back to list

Samira Ahmed

Contact

Find Us