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:
o Dhaka University, Bangladesh, BA (Economics), 1960
o Dhaka University, Bangladesh, MA (Economics), 1961
o Vanderbilt University PhD (Economics), 1969
• Biographical highlights:
o 1972 Returns to Bangladesh as Professor of Economics at the University of Chittagong
o 1974 Pioneered the idea of Gram Sarker (village government)
o 1975-1989 Director of the Rural Economics Program
o 1976 Founded Grameen Bank
o 1978 Received the President's award for Tebhaga Khamar (a system of cooperative three-share farming)
o 1994 Recipient of the World Food Prize
o 1995 Recipient of the Freedom Prize
• Quotes
o One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. (5 May 1996, The Independent)