Samira Ahmed

award winning journalist and broadcaster. She presents a range of programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 3 including The World Tonight, Sunday and Night Waves and the Proms for BBC4. She has presented Channel 4 News, been the BBC's Los Angeles Correspondent, covering the OJ Simpson case, worked as a reporter on Today and Newsnight, writes regularly for The Guardian and has a column in The Big Issue

Samira Ahmed is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Until recently she was a presenter and correspondent at Channel 4 News and now presents BBC Radio 4 news programmes. She won the Stonewall Broadcaster of the Year award 2009 for her report about "corrective" rape in South Africa, made the Channel 4 documentary series "Islam Unveiled" about the status of Muslim women round the world. She has also presented Radio 4's religion and ethics programme, "Sunday" and writes and broadcasts with a special interest in culture, politics and education, for The Spectator, The Guardian and The Independent and BBC2's The Review Show. Her natural competitive streak found an outlet when she won Celebrity Mastermind in 2010.

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