Khaldoon Ahmed is a consultant psychiatrist, anthropologist and filmmaker. He was born in London of Pakistani descent. Khaldoon studied medicine at University College London after which he trained at the London Film Academy. Through his work, he became sensitised to people marginal to society because of exclusion or experience of mental illness. He was a Trustee of the Mental Fight Club, an arts and health charity, that launched the Dragon Cafe and ReCreate Psychiatry projects. Khaldoon teaches medical students, and supervises trainees in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He has published research in culture and health.

His last film “John Meyer Ward” is about the demolished Victorian Asylum building at Springfield Hospital. The film was installed at the Museum of the Mind at the Bethlem Hospital, and has been screened internationally. Khaldoon was selected as a Berlinale Talent, and his work has been shown at film festivals like the Berlinale, and galleries like the Whitechapel Art Gallery.