Muhammad Yunus, founder of the “Bank for the Poor” in Bangladesh. He has experience in combating poverty in his country, as he succeeded in creating and establishing the Grameen Bank.
He left the presidency of the bank in 2011 at the request of the Central Bank because he had exceeded the retirement age (60 years) Yunus was born on June 28, 1940, in Bathwa, one of the villages of the city of Chittagong located southeast of the state of East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan in 1955.