Mursal Hedayat
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Mursal Hedayat | |
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| Born | Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds (BSc) |
Mursal Hedayat MBE is a British businesswoman. She 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]
Hedayat is a Forbes 30 under 30[7] and was awarded an MBE in 2021 for services to Social Enterprise, Technology and the Economy.