Kamal joined the BBC as economics editor in March 2016. He was previously executive business editor for the Telegraph Media Group and before that group director of communications at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the regulator charged with upholding and enforcing equality and human rights legislation in Britain.

Other posts include executive editor of news at The Observer newspaper and royal correspondent, media correspondent and then media editor for The Guardian. Kamal started his career in Scotland where he worked for Scotland on Sunday, rising to deputy news editor. He studied politics at Leeds University.

Between 2000 and 2004 Kamal was Political Editor of The Observer. Between 1996 and 2000, Kamal worked for The Guardian, starting on the paper as Royal Correspondent, later becoming Media Correspondent and then Media Editor.

Kamal started his career in Scotland where he worked for Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman’s sister title where he rose to become chief reporter and deputy news editor.