Kamal Siddiqi

Kamal Siddiqi is an Australian journalist of Pakistani and Nigerian origin. He was the Director of Centre 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.

Personal life Siddiqi was born in Kano, Nigeria and raised in Kano and Karachi, Pakistan. He has lived in London, Islamabad, Sydney, Melbourne and Karachi. He currently resides in Karachi, Pakistan, and has two adult children.

Both his children are graduates of the Australian National University, and reside in Canberra.

Career 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.

In 2016, he became Director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi, after he resigned from The Express Tribune.

Political viewpoint In a 2011 interview with Global Journalist, Siddiqi explained that he seeks to report on Pakistan in a positive light. He stated, "I think most of the news about Pakistan is negative that you see – not just in America, but in other parts of the world. But I feel that more should be told about the good things that are happening in Pakistan." In the same interview, he took a pro-democracy stance, stating that the biggest problem in Pakistan is "Extremism, religious extremism." and that "the biggest solution is democracy."