MUHAMMAD YUNUS

2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
    for their efforts to create economic and social development from below
Background
  • Born: June 28, 1940
  • Place of birth: Chittagong, Bangladesh
  • Nationality: Bangladesh
  • Education:
    • Dhaka University, Bangladesh, BA (Economics), 1960
    • Dhaka University, Bangladesh, MA (Economics), 1961
    • Vanderbilt University PhD (Economics), 1969
  • Biographical highlights:
    • 1972 Returns to Bangladesh as Professor of Economics at the University of Chittagong
    • 1974 Pioneered the idea of Gram Sarker (village government)
    • 1975-1989 Director of the Rural Economics Program
    • 1976 Founded Grameen Bank
    • 1978 Received the President's award for Tebhaga Khamar (a system of cooperative three-share farming)
    • 1994 Recipient of the World Food Prize
    • 1995 Recipient of the Freedom Prize
  • Quotes
    • One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. (5 May 1996, The Independent)
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