Muhammad Yunus, Vanderbilt Economics alumnus and Nobel Laureate chosen as interim leader in Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus has been chosen by Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin to lead an interim government in Bangladesh. Yunus came to Vanderbilt after being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and completed his PhD in Economics in 1971. In 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, along with Vanderbilt’s Nichols-Chancellor Medal.
Economics chair Kamal Saggi has praised Yunus’s work. “His whole mindset has been how to help poor people, and I think that transmits as an economist really well to how to help the whole country at large.”
Learn more here: Vanderbilt alumnus and Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead interim government of Bangladesh – The Vanderbilt Hustler