Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed was born on 1968 in London, Britain.

She is a television newsreader and reporter best known for her work with the BBC. She is currently a reporter and newspresenter on Channel 4 News.

Ahmed studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford between 1986 and 1989. Before doing a Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at City University. She joined the BBC as a Trainee in 1990. Ahmed was a BBC journalist 1994 to 1997 and also worked as a presenter on BBC World and News 24.

As the BBC's Los Angeles correspondent she covered the OJ Simpson case, before working as an anchor and political correspondent in Berlin for Deutsche Welle TV.

She combines reporting and presenting, working in her passion for old movies, whenever she can. Her documentary series "Islam Unveiled" on the status of Muslim women around the world, was aired on Channel 4 last year.