Nobel Peace Prize 2006
Muhammad Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, a social entrepreneur and creator of the microcredit and microfinance concept. Referred to as the “banker of the poor” he received along with the Grameen Bank the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his fight for a just economy.
He is one of the seven people who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congress Medal. Other important prizes include the Ramón Magsaysay Award in 1984, the World Food Prize, the Simón Bolívar International Prize (1996), the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord and the Sydney Peace Prize in 1998, and the Seoul Peace Prize in 2006.
He has also been awarded 50 honorary doctorates from universities in 20 different countries and 113 international awards from 26 different countries, including state honors from 10 countries.