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Muhammad Yunus

Bangladeshi economist and statesman known for revolutionizing microfinance and leading Bangladesh's interim government.

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Muhammad Yunus is best known for Pioneering microcredit and microfinance, founder of Grameen Bank, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. On Dead or Alive, Muhammad Yunus is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Muhammad Yunus is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Pioneering microcredit and microfinance, founder of Grameen Bank, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Muhammad Yunus

Yunus pioneered the modern concept of microcredit and microfinance, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Following the July Uprising, he was appointed as the 5th chief adviser of Bangladesh, the head of the interim government, serving from 2024 to 2026. He completed his BA from University of Dhaka and joined as a lecturer in Chittagong College. He obtained his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University in the United States. After the famine of 1974, Yunus started to work on poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. In 1983, the Grameen Bank was established. The success of the Grameen microfinance model inspired similar efforts in about 100 developing countries and even in developed countries including the United States. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. In 2012, Yunus became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, a position he held until 2018. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Chittagong University in Bangladesh. He published several books related to his finance work. Yunus also served in the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to support UN causes, from 1998 to 2021.

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