Muhammad Yunus

Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Founder of Grameen Bank, Microcredit Pioneer

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Muhammad Yunus Biography

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As the founder and chairman of Grameen Bank, and the founder of the Yunus Centre, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides the poor — mainly women — with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty.

Muhammad Yunus’s vision is the total eradication of poverty worldwide. "Grameen," he says, "is a message of hope, a program for putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." This work represents a fundamental rethink on the economic relationship between the rich and the poor, their rights and their obligations. Yunus's methods have been recognized globally, leading to him receiving more than 112 awards from 26 countries, including state honors from ten countries, and prestigious awards like the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the World Food Prize.

Credit is the last hope left to those faced with absolute poverty. That is why Muhammad Yunus believes that the right to credit should be recognized as a fundamental human right. It is this struggle and the unique and extraordinary methods he invented to combat human despair that Yunus recounts here with humility and conviction. It is also the view of a man familiar with both Eastern and Western cultures — on the failures and potential for good of industrial countries. It is an appeal for action: we must concentrate on promoting the will to survive and the courage to build in the first and most essential element of the economic cycle — Man.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/09/2024.

Muhammad Yunus Speaking Topics

  • Microcredit & Empowering the Poorest of the Poor: A Story of Success & Hope

  • Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business & the Future of Capitalism

Muhammad Yunus Videos

  • Guest Lecture by Prof. Muhammad Yunus on Social Entrepreneurship
    Centre for Entrepreneurship at Ashoka University organised a guest lecture by Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus on April 6, 2018. Prof. Yunus is...
  • Davos 2016 Hub Culture Interview w Prof Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate
  • Dr. Muhammed Yunus Interview, hosted by Andrew Young, CSI
    Professor Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for...

Muhammad Yunus Books

  • A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
    A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
  • Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
    Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
  • Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
    Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
  • Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
    Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

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Muhammad Yunus is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Microcredit & Empowering the Poorest of the Poor: A Story of Success & Hope and Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business & the Future of Capitalism. The estimated speaking fee range to book Muhammad Yunus for your event is available upon request. Muhammad Yunus generally travels from Bangladesh and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Joseph Stiglitz, Ian Bremmer, Dambisa Moyo, Parag Khanna and Todd Buchholz. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Muhammad Yunus for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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