TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008

GLOBAL TOMORROW FORUM

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Creating a World Without Poverty

With

Muhammad Yunus
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people—mainly women—with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families. 

Now, Yunus—in partnership with some of the world’s most visionary business leaders—has launched the world’s first purposely designed social businesses. From collaborating with Danone to produce affordable, nutritious yogurt for malnourished children in Bangladesh to building eyecare hospitals that will save thousands of poor people from blindness, he offers a glimpse of the amazing future with a planet transformed by thousands of social businesses. Yunus puts forward a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism.

Muhammad Yunus was born in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of fourteen children, he was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. He then served as chairman of the economics department at Chittagong University before devoting his life to providing financial and social services to the poorest of the poor. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and the author of the bestselling Banker to the Poor. Yunus and Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Global Tomorrow Forum celebrates pioneering leaders and their unique approaches to influencing global affairs. Working outside traditional government channels, business and religious leaders, philanthropists, social activists, and media personalities are tackling tough global challenges and making major contributions to the advancement of society. Join The Chicago Council for the Global Tomorrow Forum and learn more about how these innovative leaders are changing the world.

The Fairmont Hotel
200 North Columbus Drive
Chicago, Illinois, 60601

Cash bar reception: 5:30 p.m.
Presentation, discussion, book signing: 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.

Young Professional Members: $10
Members: $20
Nonmembers: $30
President’s Circle, Corporate Members, and Student Members complimentary

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