Mursal Hedayat MBE was awarded the Barclays Woman in the Community Award 2021. She is the founder and

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

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 The refugee teachers have higher education and were often qualified professionals in their countries of origin. Chatterbox works with corporate clients and has gained support from British and Silicon Valley investors. In 2018, Chatterbox won a ‘Next Billion’ Edtech Prize for high impact innovative technology. She lives in the UK having taken refuge from

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. She studied at

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

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

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