Amar Latif

Amar Latif (born 4 December 1974) is a blind British entrepreneur, television presenter, actor, director, motivational speaker and world traveller. His blindness is due to the incurable eye condition retinitis pigmentosa. By the age of 20, he had 95% sight loss.

Amar is the founder and director of Traveleyes, the world's first commercial international air tour operator company to specialise in serving blind as well as sighted travellers. Established in 2005, Traveleyes now runs over 60 holidays a year, to destinations all over the globe. In founding this ground-breaking enterprise, Amar set out to ensure that visually impaired travellers should never have to accept restrictions on their world travel aspirations. A Scotsman now based in Leeds, Latif often personally acts as world tour-guide.

Amar Latif gained a BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Finance at the University of Strathclyde, spending part of his course in Canada at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. On leaving university, he trained as an accountant, and eventually became Head of Commercial Finance for British Telecom.

In 2007, he was presented with the inaugural Stelios Disabled Entrepreneur Award. This award is presented by EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou in partnership with the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability. Latif's awards include the 2005 'Outstanding Young Business Entrepreneur of the World' and 'Outstanding Young Person of the UK', both awarded by the Chamber of Commerce International (JCI), the 2006 One Vision Man of the Year and the University of Strathclyde’s 2006 Alumnus of the Year award.

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