Professor Muhammad YunusChairman, Yunus CentreFounder, Grameen Bank (Remarks by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus delivered at AmCham Luncheon Meeting on July 12, 2011) Thank you Aftab and thank you Gafur! Assalamu Alaikum! First I apologize for being delayed. ...

Thursday 24th November 2011 Director, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour and privilege to propose Professor Muhammad Yunus for an honorary degree. As everyone here must know, Professor Yunus' work with the Grameen Bank has helped to improve the lives of tens ...

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus received an honorary doctoral degree in economics from London School of Economics on Thursday. In a formal ceremony at the Old Theatre of the LSE attended by over 500 faculty and students, the Director of the LSE, Dr Judith Rees ...

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Brussels on November 18, 2011 at the invitation of the European Commission to give a keynote speech at their event "Promoting Social Business in Europe". Professor Yunus delivered the keynote speech at the opening session...

Ladies and gentlemen, The Social Business Initiative is a first step, but an important one. The Commission's guiding objective is to create the right environment for social businesses in all their diversity of legal forms and status across our Member States. To foster...

Chancellor of Austria Werner Faynman today inaugurated the third Global Social Business Summit in Vienna at the Congress Centre of Vienna. Mayor of Vienna, Dr. Michael Haupl greeted the nearly the audience of more than 500 delegates from 56 countries. Under the motto "...

Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited to deliver a key note speech during the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit held in Nice. Speaking in front of an audience of more than 400 entrepreneurs from all G20 countries, Professor Yunus made the following points: I am entrepreneu...

Pioneers of the worldwide Social Business movement come together for the Global Social Business Summit 2011 from the 10th-12th November at the Congress Center Messe Vienna to connect and exchange experiences about Social Business. For the first time this yearly summit w...

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Moscow on October 19-22 at the invitation of Ms. Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina, the Russian Minister for Economic Development and Trade, to discuss social business. Professor Yunus met with the Minister along with other ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus presents at Social Business and Microcredit Forum By Camille Jensen ATLANTA - Business designed to help people get off the streets, empower women to leave domestic violence and restore local jobs. At a time when government ...