1. Good Afternoon Every one
We are here to give a presentation on a
successful entrepreneur
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2. DR. MD YUNUS – FIRST BANGLADESHI WHO
IS A NOBEL WINNER

3. EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
• Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Muslim family in the village of
Bathua, by the Boxirhat Road in Hathazari, Chittagong. His father
was Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, a jeweler, and his mother was Sufia
Khatun.
• he passed the matriculation examination from Chittagong Collegiate
School ranking 16th of 39,000 students in East Pakistan. During his
school years, he was an active Boy Scout. Later while Yunus studied
at Chittagong College, he became active in cultural activities and
won awards for drama. In 1957, he enrolled in the Department of
Economics at Dhaka University and completed his BA in 1960 and

4. AFTER GRADUATION
• Yunus joined the Bureau of Economics as a research assistant
• He was appointed lecturer in economics in Chittagong College in 1961.
• In 1965, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United
States.
• He obtained his PhD in economics from the Vanderbilt University
Graduate Program in Economic Development (GPED) in 1971.
• During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Yunus founded a citizen's
committee and ran the Bangladesh Information Center, with other
Bangladeshis in the United States, to raise support for liberation.
• He join Chittagong University as head of the Economics department.

5. AS AN ENTREPRENEUR
• In 1976, during visits to the poorest households in the village of Jobra
near Chittagong University, Yunus discovered that very small loans
could make a disproportionate difference to a poor person.
• Yunus lent US$27 of his money to 42 women in the village, who made a
profit of BDT 0.50 (US$0.02) each on the loan. Thus Yunus is credited
with the idea of microcredit alongside Dr.Akhtar Hameed Khan,
founder of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development (now
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development), whom Yunus greatly
admired.
• On 1 October 1983 he established a full-fledged bank for poor
Bangladeshis and was renamed Grameen Bank ("Village Bank").

6. RECOGNITIONS
• Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, along with
Grameen Bank, for their efforts to create economic and social
development. In the prize announcement The Norwegian Nobel
Committee mentioned
• He is one of only seven persons to have won the Nobel Peace Prize,
Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
• Yunus has been awarded 50 honorary doctorate degrees from
universities across 20 countries, and 113 international awards
from 26 different countries including state honours from 10
countries.

7. •Good Bye