Professor of Gynaecological Oncology at the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford and a Consultant Gynaecological Oncology Surgeon at the Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre and is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. Professor Ahmed leads laboratory-based translational research in Gynaecological Oncology. His main research interest is in the surgical, medical and fundamental research into ovarian cancer.

Professor Ahmed graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt and completed his PhD and Gynaecological Oncology Surgical training at the University of Cambridge. He received his postdoctoral research training at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre in the USA. He was appointed as a Clinical Reader in Oxford in 2010 and became a Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Professor of Gynaecological Oncology in 2012.