Prof. Dr. Muhammed Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a banker, economist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Bangladesh. He originally held a professorship in economics, where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are granted to entrepreneurs who are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Muhammad Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and the bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in building social and economic structures from a young age. Professor Yunus himself has received numerous national and international awards. He is also the author of the book "Banker to the Poor" and one of the founding members of the boards of Grameen America and the Grameen Foundation. Muhammad Yunus is also a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation. The UN Foundation establishes and implements public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems. Grameen Social Business is a non-profit organization fully committed to achieving its social goals. In social business, investors receive their money back over time, but the dividend never exceeds this amount. Grameen Bank is a prime example of social business, with poor people as shareholders. Muhammad Yunus has the vision of eliminating all poverty in the world. "Grameen," he says, "is a message of hope, of putting a program about homelessness and misery into a museum, so that one day our children will visit and ask how we allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long."