Riyad Altayeb

Blogger, Business mentor, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Riyad has 5+ years of experience in the nonprofit sector, earned a Bachelor of Science in Leather Industries Engineering from Sudan University for Science and Technology in Sudan, and attended a Professional Diploma in Media and Literary Translation at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. While working as an English/Arabic Translator with specialization in Business and Finance, also an Arabic Language Coordinator with TED Conferences, he managed to subtitle 1000+ videos for TED Translators project besides leading 8000+ TED Translator volunteers who work diligently to spread ideas worth spreading by translating TED Talks into Arabic, therefore, in recognition for his invaluable contributions, TED invited him to attend TEDGlobal 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania and TEDSummit 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Previously, as a Training Manager at Khartoum Innovation Hub, Riyad was in charge of planning and executing Sudan's first business acceleration program "Support" sponsored by Zain Sudan Telecommunication Company that upon successful completion enriched the Sudanese market with 20 highly committed startups where he mentored effectively 50 promising entrepreneurs to gain necessary entrepreneurial skills and mindset they badly need to flourish. Riyad is the founder of kushSudan a promising voluntary youth initiative that aims to enrich the Sudanese positive digital content by translating a wide variety of interesting topics from English into Arabic and posting them online on their official website. Also, he is an Alumni of the Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Center East Africa program (YALI RLC) Cohort 25, a four-week residential training program in Civic Leadership, sponsored by USAID, MasterCard Foundation, Deloitte, and Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Through these diversified experiences, he developed strong project management, community outreach, and leadership skills. Riyad is strongly passionate about sharing knowledge, experiences, and discovering brand-new cultures, in addition, he is interested in the topics of youth empowerment, social entrepreneurship, and education.

Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship, Languages learning, Swimming, Traveling and many more!

Colour in Faith's Project (http://www.colourinfaith.com/)

My journey with TED started from Facebook where Anwar Dafa-Allah TEDxKhartoum's licensee kept posting about TED community and its Open Translation Project, since it was my first time I felt frenetic curiosity to dig deeper looking for more and more, I googled it and it wasn't difficult to find ted.com and then amara.org. Driven by old passion for translation I enrolled to TED Translators project as an active volunteer from day one.