Ece Çiftçi

Ece Çiftçi was born on November 15th, 1993 in Istanbul. Having completed her primary, middle and high school education at Private Enka Schools, Çiftçi became acquainted with social responsibility through a conference she attended when she was 14 and realized that children across the world did not have equal access to social education and were raised without self-confidence. In order to continue and develop her social responsibility project by spreading across the globe, she preferred study Sociology in 2011. When it was 2012, the project was named “SosyalBen” and ranked first in the “Bir Fikrin Mi Var?” competition featured on TV8. As a result of the competition, the volunteers met other non-governmental organizations in England. After the process in England, SosyalBen volunteers reached to Africa and conducted their first international field work in Gambia. The association has been carrying out its works as SosyalBen Foundation since January 2017. Ece Çiftçi, the youngest chairman of board of trustees in Turkey, provided education to more than 50,000 students at high schools and universities she visited as a guest. The project, beginning in Istanbul, keeps working with its 350 volunteer at 10 domestic and 5 foreign representative offices. Ece Çiftçi was accepted by Harvard and Oxford universities, to which she applied for post-graduate education, thanks to her achievements. Perpetuating her personal and carrier development through several local and international training and education programmes, Ciftci has been qualified for not only the G(irls)20 summit new generation femal leaders training programme but also for BBVA Momentum entrepreneurs’ training and networking programme; both eventually aim provide strategic financial support for young entrepreneurs’. After her university education, she established SosyalBen Akademi company that provides consultancy services for corporate and individual social responsibility projects. Çiftçi, whose aim was to raise a future-sensitive generation with SosyalBen Akademi company, was selected as the best social entrepreneur of the year by many institutions and organizations thanks to her works conducted in Turkey and across the World. Owing to her successes, New York University, Sorbonne University and Northeastern University invited Çiftçi as a speaker in January 2017. In April 2018 USA State Department selected Ece Çiftçi as a Emergin Young Leader. She is the first Turkish social entreprenur and social activist who won this award from State Department. Çiftçi also lectures as an instructor about non-governmental organization, which is one of her field of expertise.