Tazeen Ahmad

Ahmad was born in Karachi, Pakistan to two academics, Shaher (née Bano) and Waheed Ahmad. By the time she was 14, her parents had separated and she spent three years in Islamabad with her father before returning to Britain in 1988. She completed her A Levels at Weald College, Harrow, followed by a media and communications degree at the Barking campus of the University of East London. == Career ==

After graduating, Ahmad joined BBC Radio and then worked as a freelance for ITN. Channel 4 and the BBC 5 Live and on Radio 4 as well as the World Service. She also reported during BBC One's Election night coverage, a presenter of 60 Seconds and ''The 7 O'Clock News'' on BBC Three. The documentaries Ahmad made for Channel 4's Dispatches programme included investigations into sex gangs in the UK, exposés on the world of fashion, credit cards and the cosmetics industry, as well as British schools. The 2013 programme ''The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs for Dispatches, about sex gangs active in Telford won a Royal Television Society award and the Asian Media Award for Best Investigation, After a Dispatches programme in 2011 titled Lessons in Hate and Violence,'' which showed undercover footage of violence against children in a Keighley mosque, a teacher was imprisoned. She also reported for the BBC's Inside Out. Ahmad's book, The Checkout Girl, was published in August 2009 by The Friday Project/HarperCollins. Over six months, she worked 'undercover' as a checkout assistant in English supermarkets. Ahmad was the founder and director of EQ Matters, an emotional intelligence consultancy. ==Death==

Ahmad died after struggling with cancer on 6 November 2019, aged 48. ==References==