Mursal Hedayat

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Mursal Hedayat

Mursal Hedayat MBE was awarded the Barclays Woman in the Community Award 2021. [1]

She is the founder and CEO of tech social enterprise start-up Chatterbox, an online language school that trains and employs refugees as teachers, enabling people to take advantage of the language skills of asylum seekers [2] [3] The refugee teachers have higher education and were often qualified professionals in their countries of origin. [4] Chatterbox works with corporate clients and has gained support from British and Silicon Valley investors. [5] In 2018, Chatterbox won a ‘Next Billion’ Edtech Prize for high impact innovative technology. [6]

She lives in the UK having taken refuge from Afghanistan. [7] She studied at University of Leeds [6]

Mursal is a Forbes “30 under 30” [8] and was awarded an MBE in 2021 for services to Social Enterprise, Technology and the Economy.

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