Overview

Gender

male

Kürşat Ceylan was born in 1986. He was born blind. Kürşat studied psychological counseling at Boğaziçi University. During his university years, he was selected to attend the YGA Leadership Program as one of 50 participants out of 50,000 applicants. He volunteered on projects for the socioeconomic development of the visually impaired. After his graduation, he started to work at Roche, Istanbul. During this time, he was producing and hosting a Turkish award-winning radio show called, "Exploration of Emotions that are Suppressed by Sight", which aired every week on NTV Radio. In 2015, he resigned from Roche and started working at YGA as project leader, spearheading projects for the visually impaired. Kürşat won various global awards for his work in the field of visual impairment, dealing with indoor navigation, audio description in movie theatres, and the WeWALK Smart Cane.

Currently, Kursat Ceylan is the co-founder of WeWALK LTD, which strives to solve problems for people who are visually impaired through innovation.

Accomplishments:

World Mobile Congress Award, Global System for Mobile Communications (2 times)
Speech, United Nations in Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2 times)
Gold Award in the Health & Wellness Category, Edison Awards