Kamal Siddiqi

Kamal Siddiqi

Kamal Siddiqi is an Australian journalist of Pakistani origin. He is currently the Director of Center for Excellence in Journalism at Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. Previously, he was the editor of the Express Tribune, the Pakistani affiliate of the International Herald Tribune. Before that, he was the Editor Reporting at The News based in Karachi. He has written for The Age and The Australian. Topics he has written about include religious minorities in Pakistan, human rights, democratic development, and rule of law.

Siddiqi was born in Kano, Nigeria and raised in Kano and Karachi, Pakistan. He has lived in London, Islamabad, Sydney, Melbourne and Karachi.

Siddiqi was a business and financial journalist prior to turning to opinion writing and editing. In 1990, he started at The News as a copy editor on the city desk.

Siddiqi received a master's degree from Karachi University. In 1994, he was awarded the Britannia Scholarship and completed a master's of science degree in media studies from the London School of Economics.

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