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Yunus Addresses National Conference in Mexico As a Guest of The President of Mexico
Yunus Centre Press Release (June 20, 2019)Mexico, June 17, 2019Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by the new Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to visit Mexico to have elaborate discussion with his cabinet ministers regarding Professor Yunus's experience in poverty eradication programme. Ending poverty and corruption were the overriding commitment on which President fought and won a landslide victory in the presidential election. During his stay in Mexico he was...
Cape Verde To Create Social Business Fund
Yunus Centre Press Release (28 May, 2019)Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by the Prime Minister of Cape Verde to give the Prime Ministerial Lecture at the third international conference on reimagining Cape Verde, titled CV (Cape Verde) Next. It was held in Praia, the capital of the Republic of Cape Verde, an island countryin the central Atlantic.Professor Yunus attended the conference from May 22nd to 24th.Located 570 km west of the coastline of Northwest Africa, the Cape Verd...
Opera Based on Life of Yunus Staged in Italy
Yunus Centre Press Release: May 26, 2019Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived Fano, Italy on 20 May, 2019, to attend the Premiere of an unusual Opera titled “27 Dollari” . The Opera was performed in a packed hall of the famous Teatro della Fortuna (Theatre of Luck) in the tourist city of Fano, Italy, in the western coast of Adriatic Sea. Professor Yunus was specially invited at this Opera Premier by Professor Vilberto Stocchi, the Rector of the Unive...
Kazakhstan to Set Up Grameen Kazakhstan
Press Release (24 May, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by the Prime minister of Kazakhstan to attend Astana Economic Forum, a premier conference that attracts government and business leaders from around the world. During his visit Professor Yunus had a session with Prime minister who wanted to know Professor Yunus’s view on poverty alleviation strategy for Kazakhstan. Professor Yunus had a detailed discussion with Mr. Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, Minister of Presidential...
Yunus launches Joint Venture “G. Japan Sunpower Auto Limited”
Yunus Centre Press Release (12 May 2019) Caption for Photo : On 8 May 2019, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus presided over the official launch of the joint venture company, G. Japan Sunpower Auto Limited through a ribbon cutting ceremony with Ashraful Hassan, Managing Director of Grameen Distribution Limited, Takuya Kawamura, President of Sunpower Corp. and a team of CEO’s from 17 Japanese companies at Mirpur, Dhaka. On 8 May 2019, the official launch through a ribbon cutting cere...
Japan Automechanic School Celebrates its Third Graduation Ceremony, Addressed by Japanese joint venture partner Ms Kazuko Sumino president of S.K. Dream
Yunus Centre Press Release (05-MAy-2019)The 3rd graduation ceremony of Japan Automechanic School was held yesterday 04 May, 2019 at Grameen Bank Auditorium at the Grameen Bank Complex, Dhaka. Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and Chairman of Japan Automechanic Ltd., presided over the occasion and distributed certificates among graduates. Ms. Kazuko Sumino, President of S K Dream Japan, graced the occasion as Special Guest. The ceremony was also attended by Mr. Tsuneaki Hirao, Managing Dir...
Yunus Plants Tree in International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece, And Agrees to launch Joint Programme
Yunus Centre Press Release (05 April,2019)Professor Yunus was taken on a tour of the Municipal Market of Kypseli by Maria Stratigaki, Vice Mayor of Athens in charge of Social Solidarity and Welfare & Equality to be given an introduction to Greek social entrepreneurship ecosystem.The Municipal Market of Kypseli is the first Social Market in Greece that hosts the most successful Greek social enterprises, operated by Global Impact Hub Network, which is a social business created in Vienna with t...
Yunus joins HRH Grand Duchess of Luxembourg in a fight to end sexual violence
Yunus Centre Press Release (03 April, 2019)On 26 – 27 March, 2019, Stand Speak Rise Up! International Conference was held in European Convention Center, Luxembourg hosted by the Luxembourg Government and HRH The Grand Duchess Maria Teresa who summoned leaders all around the world to raise awareness and to call for action in a bid to put an end to the suffering of women and children who become victims of sexual violence in war and conflict.“Stand Speak Rise Up!” conference was c...
Yunus launches marketplace platform to offset carbon emissions in Partnership with largest French Bank BNP Paribas
Yunus Centre Press Release (01 April 2019)Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus Signed an agreement with BNP Paribas, in Paris on 28 March, 2019 to create a social business company called the ClimateSeed. This is the first independent social business company created by the bank. It will combat the adverse effects of climate changes in a social business way. The agreement is signed between Grameen Creative Lab of Germany of which Professor Yunus is a co founder and Chair...
Yunus Challenges Manila Youth to Create a New Civilization
Yunus Centre Press Release (26 March, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in Manila, Philippines recently for the Social Business Youth Summit and for a book tour of "A World of Three Zeros".He delivered the opening speech at the Social Business Youth Summit organized by Social Business Youth Alliance which took place at the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde in Manila with a call to the young people to take the lead in creating a new civilization, where the safety of the planet i...
Yunus releases research study findings of “Microfinance in the United States: Early Impacts of the Grameen America Program” with Grameen America
Yunus Centre Press Release (March 11, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus released the early results of the first-of-its-kind random study-assignment through research findings of “Microfinance in the United States: Early Impacts of the Grameen America Program” with Grameen America, in New York on 8 March 2019. The date was chosen to commemorate the achievement of women all around the world on International Women’s Day. Professor Yunus presided over the board meeting of...
Yunus Warns Young People of France and Switzerland About the Dangers of Wealth Concentration and Artificial Intelligence
Yunus Centre Press Release (March 07, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited the Campuses of three Universities in France, and one University in Switzerland to address their students. French Universities are Montpellier School of Business, in Montpellier, and Lyon Business School in Lyon, and Dijon Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, all in the South of France. Swiss University was Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), of Lausane in Switzerland. This ...
Yunus Warns IIT Kharagpur Students and Teachers about the danger of Artificial intelligence
Yunus Centre Press Release (February 6, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was a Chief Guest at The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) on February 2 organized at the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) to discuss the mission, vision and the practice for generating sustainable banking and social businesses including micro-finance at Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.IIT Kharagpur is a public engineering institution established by the government of India back in 19...
Thailand Seeks Yunus' Advice on Development of Muslim Majority Southern Provinces
Yunus Centre Press Release (04 February, 2019)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by Kasetsart University, Thailand's leading agriculture university to visit the southern provinces of Thailand from 26-28 January. Southern Thailand has remained significantly behind the rest of Thailand in economic and social developments. Out of five provinces of the Southern Thailand, four provinces have more than 80% Muslim population. Professor Yunus was invited to meet the people and the admin...
Grameen launches Houston Branch to help low-income women entrepreneurs
Yunus Centre Press Release (January 23, 2019)Grameen America, a nonprofit that issues small loans to low-income women entrepreneurs, has opened a branch in Houston, Texas.Located at 6260 Westpark Drive, the organization will provide these entrepreneurs with microloans, training and support to help them rebuild after Hurricane Harvey.More than 20 percent of Houston residents live below the federal poverty line. Of those, 56 percent are single mothers with children, and the majority are people of ...