[2] She is a former Minister of State in the Ministry of Gender Youth and Child Development.
Senator Ahmed is a Motivational Speaker and Financial Planning Consultant (RFC until 2008).
Her columns Money Matters, and Wallet Watch dealt with financial advice.
She was the first female Agency Manager at Colonial Life Insurance Company Ltd. Raziah Ahmed née Baksh attended Iere High School, and was Valedictorian 1975 and awarded the Iere Gold Medal for Most Outstanding All Round Student.
She studied at Mona Jamaica, under a scholarship from Trinidad Tesoro Petroleum Co. the forerunner company to Petrotrin.