Hlanganiso Matangaidze studys economics and finance at the University of Sussex Business School. He founded his own company two years ago during his first year at university. RED aims to build low-cost, vertical wind turbines and distribute them across rural Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Hlanganliso was recently named in the 2019’s Top 10 Rare Rising Stars - an annual awards ceremony celebrating the UK’s top ten black African and Caribbean university students.
He was born in Zimbabwe, and came to the UK with his family at the age of five.