Khalil Ramal was elected to the Ontario legislature in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. He has served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

Before becoming an MPP, Ramal worked as a teacher and in the media, operated a small business, and served as vice-president of Orchard Farm Distribution Company and president of Ramal Marketing. He worked as a counsellor with disabled and mentally challenged patients at the Oxford Regional Centre in Woodstock and as a support worker with Community Living London throughout the 1990s.

Ramal received a PhD in social politics, a BA in sociology, a MA in social politics and has diplomas in accounting and teaching.

Ramal was born in a small town in Lebanon in 1960. He is fluent in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. He is married to Nisrine and has one son.