Morning Edition spoke to the Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus about being tapped as Bangladesh’s interim leader and his country’s future.
spoke to the Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus about being tapped as Bangladesh’s interim leader and his country’s future.Autocratic former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India in early August, as tens of thousands of demonstrators stormed her residence protesting against her leadership and a job quota system that favored certain groups.
Yunus saw these events unfolding from about 5,000 miles away in Paris, where he was attending the summer Olympics. Back then, he still faced possible jail time in Bangladesh on embezzlement charges, which he alleged was Hasina’s political prosecution. But hours after Hasina’s ouster on Aug. 5, Yunus received a phone call. He was asked to serve as special advisor to the interim government. It was a “very strange turn of events,” he told NPR’sA 2006 Nobel Laureate, Yunus is known for founding Grameen Bank and pioneering small loans for low income people as a way to fight poverty. When he was mired in legal trouble at home, world leaders from Barack Obama to former U.N.
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