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APRENDIZ: WILMAR LIBARDO SÁNCHEZ OLAYA

INSTRUCTOR: CONRADO ALONSO ZULUAGA HOYOS

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 Muhammad yunus

He is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and social leader who

was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Grameen Bank and
pioneering the concepts of microcredit.
Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to
encourage social and economic development from below.
Founder of the Grameen Bank, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for
Concord in 1998, the Simón Bolívar International Award in 1996 and the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2006.
In 2008 Foreign Policy magazine ranked him number 2 on the list of 'Top 100
Global Thinkers'.
In 2012, he became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland,
Yunus also serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a
public charity created in 1998 by American philanthropist Ted Turner' who donated
$1 billion to United Nations causes.
In January 2012, Yunus was featured in the book Transformative Entrepreneurs:
How Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus and Other Innovators Achieved
Success by Jeffrey Harris.

Yunus was appointed Nobel Laureate in Residence at the Universiti Kebangsaan

Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) on July 15, 2011.

Yunus gave the Seventh Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture.

In January 2008, the city of Houston, Texas declared January 14 "Muhammad

Yunus Day".

On May 15, 2010, Yunus gave a speech at Rice University for the class of 2010.
On May 16 of the same year, Yunus gave another speech at Duke University for
the class of 2010. During this ceremony, he was awarded an honorary degree.
Doctor of Humanistic Letters.

Yunus was invited and gave the commencement address for the Wharton School
of Business on May 17, 2009,52 the commencement address at MIT on June 6,
2008,53 the Adam Smith Lecture at Glasgow University on 1 December 200854
and the Roman Conference in Oxford on December 2 of the same year.

He received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service to the
Eisenhower Community at a ceremony in Philadelphia on May 21, 2009. He was
also voted #2 in Prospect Magazine's ranking of the World's 100 Intellectuals. in
2008.

Yunus was named among the most desirable thinkers the world should listen to by
Foreign Policy magazine's December 2009 FP 100. On March 1, 2010, Yunus was
named with the prestigious Presidential Award from the University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign. The highest honor of this university.