Muhammad Yunus Speaks at BU

Boston University welcomed 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus on Saturday, October 13, giving a lecture entitled, "Because Poverty is the absence of every Human Right!" about his work with the Grameen Bank. Many SMG and PNP students attended this inspiring event at the George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom.

"Hearing Yunus speak was a great experience," said Lonn Drucker, candidate for MBA 2009. "It appealed to the social entrepreneur that lives within the PNP program. Yunus specifically spoke to us MBA students to usher in a new period of the third sector; the idea of the social business. One that provides self-sustaining social returns rather than dividends to shareholders. He looked to Grameen's partnership with Danone group as an example. Hearing of these ideas succeeding in practice was both inspiring and energizing."

Students lined up as early as an hour before Yunus' lecture. Students from other colleges around Boston, such as M.I.T., Smith, and Northeastern also attended.

Sixty-four percent of his original clients from Bangladesh are now above the poverty line. Yunus is the author of "Banker to the Poor," about establishing the Grameen Bank.

Video of Yunus' lecture
Q&A Session