Business For Peace Foundation

Dr. Muhammad Yunus,

Winner of The Nobel Peace Prize 2006

In 2006 Mohammad Yunus and the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize for “for their efforts to create economic and social benefit from below.” Grameen Bank was established in the belief that credit is a fundamental human right and with the objective to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them. Replicas of the Grameen Bank model currently operate in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Dr. Wangari Maathai,

Green Belt Movement Founder and Winner of The Nobel Peace Prize 2004

Dr. Wangari Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, a non-profit, grassroots non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Kenya. Dr. Wangari and the GBM was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for ”their contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”.

A. Michael Spence,

Winner of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001

A. Michael Spence is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the chairman of an independent Commission on Growth and Development, created in 2006 and focused on growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.