Social Business
Social Business Day 2017 Canceled
Yunus Centre Press Release(27 july 2017)With a heavy heart we inform you that we are cancelling the 7th international conference organized on 28-29 July 2017 on the occasion of Social Business Day. The conference was to be inaugurated held tomorrow at 9.00 AM at Samajik Convention Centre in Zirabo. The guests and participants invited and registered for the Opening Ceremony and also to participate in the conference are requested to cancel their plans to attend the conference. We humbly apol...
Social Business Day to be celebrated on July 28-29
2000 Local & Global Participants and Panelists to Deliberate on Wealth ConcentrationThe 7th annual Social Business Day, organized by Yunus Centre, will be held on July 28- 29, 2017. This year’s theme will be “Can Wealth Concentration be Stopped” and will be held at Samajik Convention Centre in Zirabo, Savar, Dhaka. This is a newly built 2000 seat convention centre which will be operated as social business. Social Business Day (SBD) is a platform for sharing experiences in t...
Yunus Teams up with President Macron and Mayor Hidalgo of Paris for the 2024 Olympics
Yunus Centre Press Release (July 12, 2017)Lausanne, Switzerland. July 11 : President Emmanuel Macron of France, Mayor Ann Hidalgo of Paris and Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 10 to meet the members of the International Olympic Committee to brief them on the preparations of Paris towards its candidature of holding the Olympics games in 2024.Prior to the official meeting at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, P...
Yunus Addresses European Youth Festival Encouraging Youth to Imagine a World they Want
Yunus Centre Press Release (12 June 2017)Addressed Top French CEOs at VersaillesNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the youths at ‘We Love Green’ festival attended by 27,000 young people on 10th June, 2017. He also participated a question answer session on the specially designed ‘Think Tank Stage’. Besides two large stages for music performance, We Love Green 2017 had a Think Tank Stage which was in the middle of the festival this year, where there were disc...
Wealth concentration is a ticking time bomb :Yunus warns members of European Parliament
Yunus Centre Press Release (10 June, 2017)Queen Mathilde of Belgium Hosts lunch for Yunus And other SDG Advocates at the Royal Palace.Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed over one hundred members of the European Parliament in Brussels, who assembled to hear him and Erna Solberg , Prime Minister of Norway, and two other speakers invited by the European Parliament's parliamentary committee on international development. Yunus told the parliament memb...
Sixteen Thousand New Youth Entrepreneur Funded
Yunus Centre Press Release (17 May, 017)Six New Business Launched at 583rd Social Business Design LabThe 583rd Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 17th May 2017 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium with nearly 150 national and international participants from India, Japan, USA, Brazil and Singapore. The Design Lab was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.Six new Nobin Udyokta (or New Entrepreneur) business plans were presented at today's Lab. The...
G 20 Initiative on Zero Hunger : German Minister Launches 'Berlin Charter" with Yunus
Yunus Centre Press Release (30 April, 2017)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus joined German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerd Müller, in launching the "Berlin Charter" on "One World No Hunger : Future of the Rural World" at the conclusion of a conference held in Berlin on April 28-29. This conference was held at the end of a series of meetings to draft the Berlin Charter which will be presented at the upcoming G 20 Summit for its adopt...
Muhammad Yunus Delivers Griffith Lecture
Professor Muhammad Yunus has delivered a passionate 2017 Griffith Lecture at the Queensland Conservatorium Theatre.The Bangledeshi economist and micro-finance pioneer concluded his short speaking tour of Australasia at Griffith’s South Bank campus with the annual Griffith Lecture, his sole Queensland appearance.Professor Yunus has been on a mission to educate the world on the benefits of social business since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.The 76 year-old captivate...
Yunus presides over AGFUND Advisory Council meeting in Geneva
Yunus Centre Press Release (23 April, 2017)Fourteen new Banks for the Poor to be established in Fourteen West and Central African countriesAGFUND's Third Advisory Council Meeting took place on April 19 at the United Nations Office in Geneva. It was presided over by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and attended by international experts in micro-finance, CEOs of AGFUND Banks for the Poor, businessmen and others. The council is meant to advice on strategic planning on development issues. ...
Yunus Centre arranges Khazanah Scholarship for six Bangladeshi students
Yunus Centre Press Release (19 April, 2017)Six Bangladeshi students received scholarships for pursuing graduate and postgraduate programs at foreign universities under the Khazanah Scholarship Program facilitated by Yunus Centre this year. Among the awardees 5 have been chosen for scholarships in Malaysian Universities and 1 has been chosen for a global scholarship in Cambridge University and University of California at Berkeley.The assessments for Khazanah Scholarship Progr...
Australians Moving Ahead With Yunus In Implementing Social Businesses
Yunus Centre Press Release (08 April 2017)Ministers, leaders of indigenous communities and Business Leaders looking forward to concrete actionsMelbourne 7 April 2017Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is in Australia to attend the first ever Australasian Social Business Forum in Melbourne and to hold a series of meetings with ministers, top government officials, business leaders, universities and media in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, to discuss social business as a way to tackle social ch...
Yunus Urges to Build a World of Hope
Yunus Centre Press Release (April 02, 2017) Paris wants to be the global capital of social businessNobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by Mayor Ann Hidalgo to Paris as chief guest at the Impact 2 conference at the Paris Town Hall on March 30, also to present this year's Impact 2 Woman Entrepreneur Award at the event.In her opening speech at the conference Mayor Hidalgo thanked Professor Yunus for his life's work and example, and explained how they wished to build Paris as a ...
531st Social Business Design Lab Held
Yunus Centre Press Release (27 March 2017)Social Business Course Launched at Daffodil UniversityThe 531st Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 27th March 2017 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium with nearly 150 national and international participants from India, Nepal, Malaysia and France. The Design Lab was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Six new Nobin Udyokta (or New Entrepreneur) business plans were presented at today's Lab. The business plans...
Yunus Discusses Social Business Collaboration with Dominican Republic Vice President
Yunus Centre Press Release (17 March, 2017)Proposes Social Business Solution to Tackle Plastic Particles in Food ChainVice- President of the Dominican Republic, Dr Margaret Fernandez had a meeting with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at the Presidential Palace on March 16, 2017. During his meeting with the Caribbean country's vice president, Professor Yunus discussed issues of youth unemployment, women entrepreneurship, reforestation, entrepreneurship and marketing of rurally produced pr...
Yunus Honoured by PSG Handball Club of Paris for Supporting Athletes and Sports World with Social Business
Yunus Centre Press Release (13 March, 2017)Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by celebrated Paris Saint-Germain Handball Club (PSG Handball club) of Paris to watch the European Championship match against Kiel Club of Germany on March 12 as their honoured guest. PSG had been six times European Handball Champion.Professor Yunus enjoyed the match which was easily won by PSG. Professor Yunus was invited by the club to meet the players at the end of the game to take pictures and was ...