Suat İrfan Günsel (born 3 August 1952) is a Turkish Cypriot property developer, businessman and founder and 100% owner of Cyprus's private Near East University. In 2011, Forbes ranked him as the second richest person in Cyprus and the 1,140th richest person in the world with a net worth of $2 billion.
Early life
His father was İrfan Günsel, who died on 6 November 2015.
He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
Career
The majority of his wealth comes from land owned in Cyprus and Turkey.
Günsel built Cyprus's private Near East University (which he owns in its entirety) from 1988, funded by profits from "his property empire and other business interests".
Günsel is president of Near East Bank.
Personal life
Günsel, is married with three children, and lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Honorary doctorates
Günsel has received honorary doctorates from the following universities:
2010 Comrat State University, Moldova
2010 Azerbaijan State University Azerbaijan
2011 Izhevsk International Eastern European University of Republic of Udmurtia, Udmurt Republic 2011 Odlar Yurdu University, Azerbaijan 2013 Crimean Engineering-pedagogical University, Crimea 2013 Baku Eurasian University, Azerbaijan 2016 Ardahan University 2016 Southern Federal University of Russia (IMBL)
Awards and prizes
Some awards and prizes given to Günsel are as follows;