Kamal Ahmed (born 15 November 1967) is a British journalist, who was Editorial Director of BBC News.

[3] Ahmed was later criticised by fellow journalist Nick Davies for maintaining an inappropriately close relationship with Downing Street while serving as political editor, and for publishing numerous articles that "contained significant falsehood or distortion".

[9] After leaving the newspaper, he then became group Director of Communications at the Equality and Human Rights Commission,[3] recruited by its then chairman Trevor Phillips.

[3][13] On 20 December 2013, it was announced that Ahmed would replace Robert Peston as the business editor of BBC News,[3][14] and on 24 March 2014 he assumed the post.

[15] On 30 July 2018, Ahmed was announced as BBC News's Editorial Director,[16] with Faisal Islam replacing him in his previous role.