Early Life
Babar Ahmad grew up in Tooting, South West London,. His parents emigrated to England from Pakistan in the early 1960s. His father is a retired civil servant and his mother a retired science teacher.
Ahmad was educated at Emanuel School, where he won academic prizes and obtained outstanding results at both GCSE and A-Level. He then went to university and obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of London. Before his imprisonment in August 2004, he was working in the IT department at Imperial College, University of London.
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