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Area of interest: Business
Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Telegraph
Email: kahmed@telegraph.co.uk
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About: Business journalist with the Daily Telegraph. See mediatrust.org biography
Education: University of Leeds: BA Politics; City University: post-graduate diploma in Newspaper Journalism
Career: Scotland on Sunday: Chief Reporter - 1993/1994; Observer: Executive Editor, News - September 2004 to December 2007; Equality and Human Rights Commission: Director of Communications; Sunday Telegraph: Business Editor - September 2009-
Current position/role: Business editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Edits the weekend section and writes a weekly column, news and features
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Other activities: Regular speaker at Media Trust events for charities and social enterprises
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Controversy/Criticism: Kamal Ahmed: 'Nick is a coward'. Ahmed bites back - The former political editor of 'The Observer' has been accused of complicity with the Government over his paper's stance on Iraq. Michael Savage hears the case for the defence - The Independent, 11th February 2008
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- Why Cameron wants a war on how we work - There are essentially two views of the relationship between the employer and the employee - 21st May 2012
- Sir Mervyn King’s successor must show humility - Is Sir Mervyn King a tyrant? I only ask because the answer to that question will be one of the most important facing anyone who cares about the future of the City and, by extension, the UK economy - 23rd April 2012
- Bob Diamond – a pay row about the wrong issue - When I interviewed Bob Diamond in September 2010 for this newspaper, I said that the chief executive of Barclays Bank was guilty in many people's eyes of the offence of "running a bank whilst being American" - 16th April 2012
- Will we fall in love again with ‘too cold’ Tesco? - On Good Friday, when many people were in church or at least at that other temple with a religious Bank Holiday following, the garden centre, Phil Clarke was in Tesco checking the colour of meat - 8th April 2012
- Sir Mervyn - come clean on the bank crisis - To learn from any crisis, financial or otherwise, two essential things must happen. There must be a full and frank admission of what went wrong and there must be a fundamental change in the ways of behaving to ensure - as far as is possible in an imperfect world - that such a calamity never happens again - 2nd April 2012
- James Murdoch, BSkyB and the issue of honour - In Edinburgh in 2009, James Murdoch gave the MacTaggart Lecture. This is the media industry's "big event" of the year and all the top figures from the sector were there, including Jana Bennett, the president of BBC Worldwide, and Dawn Airey, the chief executive of Five - 25th March 2012
- Budget 2012: Why Chancellor George Osborne is right to cut the 50p top rate - Eleven years ago an incandescent Gordon Brown reportedly stole into Tony Blair’s den in No.10, faced the Prime Minister and railed: “You’ve stolen my f*****g Budget." - 18th March 2012
- Why Heathrow is a test of the Prime Minister's leadership - Like Basil Fawlty not mentioning the war (“I think I said it once, but I got away with it”), the third runway at Heathrow has become a “non-subject” in polite society - 4th March
- At last, a call to arms for UK manufacturing - The value of machine tools used every year by the People's Republic of China may not seem of immediate relevance to Britain's manufacturing future. Until, that is, you compare it to the value used in Britain - 26th February 2012
- George Osborne has opened the door to tax cuts - In the rarefied world of tax collection, Tolley's Tax Guide has an almost biblical status - 13th November 2011
- Beware - Brussels sharks are circling the City - Over-the-counter Derivatives Regulation, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, Short Selling Regulation, Market Abuse Directive, Energy Market Abuse Framework - 16th October 2011
- July 28 – red letter day for James Murdoch at BSkyB - Who would have thought that two weeks ago James Murdoch would, to all intents and purposes, be re-applying for his job as chairman of BSkyB? - 17th July 2011
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