List of awards received by Muhammad Yunus

Awards received by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank:

1978 — President's Award, Bangladesh
1984 — Ramon Magsaysay Award, Philippines
1985 — Bangladesh Bank Award, Bangladesh
1987 — Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroshkar (Independence Day Award), Bangladesh
1989 — Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Switzerland
1993 — CARE Humanitarian Award
1994 — World Food Prize
1995 — Max Schmidheiny Freedom Prize
1996 — UNESCO Simón Bolívar Prize
1997 — Award from Strømme Foundation, Norway
1998 — Indira Gandhi Prize
1998 — Prince of Asturias Award
1998 — Sydney Peace Prize
2001 — Named Ashoka Global Academy Member
2001 — Fukuoka Asia Culture Prize (Grand Prize)
2004 — The Economist the newspaper's Prize for social and economic innovation.
2006 — Mother Teresa Award instituted by the Mother Teresa International and Millennium Award Committee (MTIMAC), Kolkata, India
2006 — Freedom from Want Award, one of the Four Freedoms Awards by Roosevelt Study Centre
2006 - ITU World Information Society Award by International Telecommunication Union
2006 — Seoul Peace Prize
2006 — Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Grameen Bank
2007 — The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal awarded by Vanderbilt University
2007 — Order of the Liberator in First Class with Grand Decoration awarded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
2007 — Honoured as an adviser to the government of Hainan province of China.
2008 — Corine Award

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