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The Yunus Centre () is a think tank and global resource hub based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, dedicated to promoting and disseminating the philosophy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, with a primary focus on social business, poverty alleviation, and sustainability. Information about the Yunus Centre at the homepage of To Catch a Dollar, a film about the impact of Grameen America
Established initially as the Yunus Secretariat in October 2006 following Yunus and Grameen Bank's joint receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, it was renamed the Yunus Centre in July 2008. The organisation serves as the central coordinating body for social business initiatives worldwide, acting as a one-stop resource for Grameen-related social business activities, forging international partnerships, and maintaining high visibility for the global social business movement through events, social media, publications, and academic collaborations.
, the Centre is chaired by Professor Muhammad Yunus and its executive director is Ms. Lamiya Morshed. It has established 114 Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBCs) at universities and institutions around the world as of August 2025.
The Centre's core activities include the Poverty-Free World Campaign (aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals and the vision of a poverty-free Bangladesh by 2030), international networking, support for new and existing social businesses, research and publications, development of academic programs on social business, and archiving Yunus's awards and career milestones for a planned museum and digital library. It organises major annual events such as “Social Business Day” (the 15th edition held 27–28 June 2025 in Savar, Bangladesh, themed “Social Business is the Most Effective Way to Ensure Healthcare for All”) and facilitates immersion programs, exposure visits, internships, and the 3ZERO Club initiatives.
In July 2008, it was renamed the Yunus Centre and continues to develop new social businesses, provide technical help to social business start-ups and liaise with anybody interested in the topic. They also publish a quarterly newsletter on new developments in the field of social business. Social business newsletters from the Yunus Centre
Following Muhammad Yunus's appointment as chief adviser to Bangladesh's interim government in August 2024, several organisations affiliated with the Yunus Centre—including Grameen Bank and other Grameen entities—received a series of official approvals and regulatory benefits, prompting public scrutiny and criticism. Among the developments were the approval of Grameen University, the issuance of a manpower export licence to Grameen Employment Services Limited, and a digital wallet licence for a Grameen Telecom concern. Additionally, the government stake in Grameen Bank was reduced from 25% to 10%, and its five-year tax exemption was reinstated. Critics, including jurists and civil society members, raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest and the integrity of the approval processes, especially as several legal cases against Yunus and his associates were dismissed soon after he assumed office. While the interim government maintained that all approvals followed due process, transparency advocates called for greater disclosure to mitigate perceptions of undue influence.
| Frédéric Dalsace, Chair Holder and Associate Professor of Marketing Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Executive Director of the Chair, Affiliate Professor of Strategy, and co-Director of the HEC Paris Society & Organizations (SnO) Center |
| Dr. Faiz Shah, Director of Yunus Center and Head of Development Management, AIT |
| Professor Dr Morven McEachern, Reader in Marketing and Director of the Centre for Social Business Centre Co-Director: Dr Kevin Kane Colin McCallum, Executive Director, University Advancement |
| Rachel Baker, Professor of health economics and director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and health, GCU |
| Prof. Dr. Karin Kreutzer, Professor of Social Business, Head of Impact Institute Franziska Schwarzer, Research Assistant Social Business |
| Prof. Andrea K. Grove, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science; Director, California Institute for Social Business |
| Ezgi Yıldırım Saatçi, Head of Department, Business Administration |
| Managing Director: Hiroshi Hoshino Executive Director: Masaharu Okada |
| Dr. Lokhman Hakim Osman, Faculty of Economics and Management, Former Lt Cdr of the Royal Malaysia Navy and Center for Value Creation and Human Well-being |
| Dr. Malgorzata Bonikowska, Entrepreneurship department and President of the CIR |
| Dr. Chien-Wen Shen, Associate Professor, Dept of Business Administration; Director, Yunus Social Business Centre Taiwan; Executive Director of the Social Impact Institute of Taiwan |
| Dr. Enrico Testi, Director, Yunus Social Business Centre University of Florence |
| Dr Anne Bunde-Birouste, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Vice president, IUHPE Board of Trustees |
| Professor Mohammed Masum Iqbal, PhD; Dean, Faculty of Business & Entrepreneurship & Director, YSBC |
| Wong Poh Kam, Professor at the School of Business and Director for NUS Entrepreneurship Centre |
| Rogerio Oliveira, Director of YSBC |
| Sadia Mahjabeen, Assistant Professor, Dept of Business Administration |
| Nanda Kishor Mandal, Head of Yunus Social Business Center and King’s Incubator; Sushant Rijal, Program Officer |
| Dr. Azlan Amran, Dean at the Graduate School of Business, USM |
| Dr. M. S. Mathivaanan, Chairman of SSM Group of Institutions |
| Dr Shahrina Md Nordin, Associate Professor; Dr Wan Fatimah Wan Ahmad, Associate Professor, Dept of Computer & Information Sciences, Center of Social Innovation, Universiti Teknologi Petronas |
| Dr. Yodmanee Tepanon, Ph.D.; Assistant Dean, Quality Assurance; Head, Department of Operations Management |
| Teresa Monllau, Yunus Social Business Network of Universities Barcelona |
| Professor Adalat Jalal Muradov, Rector Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) |
| Luciano Barin Cruz, Professor; Dr. Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Associate Professor |
| Professor Meng Zhao, Director, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Micro Finance, Renmin University of China; Dr. Majid Ghorbani, Vice-Director, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Micro Finance |
| Dr. Ingrid Burkett, Co-Director, Yunus Social Business Centre; Prof. Alex Hannant, Co-Director, Yunus Social Business Centre |
| Prof. Chieh-Yu Lin, Director, Yunus Social Business Center, Chang Jung Christian University |
| Dr. Christopher Gan, Professor in Accounting and Finance, Department of Financial and Business System, Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce |
| Prof. Wong Hung, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work |
| Professor Ranga Zinyemba Douglas, Rector |
| Prof. Dr. Rajan Sharma, Deputy Director (International Relations) |
| Dr. Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda, Rector, Autonomous University of Baja California |
| Prof. Fadi Kattan, Dean of the School of Business Administration |
| Dr. Nur Azura Adam, Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| Professor Yung-Kai Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Business |
| Scarioni Beatrice, Tech4Impact, Vice-Presidency for Innovation |
| Dr. Yvonne Yu-Fang Yen, Director of Yunus Social Business Center of National Quemoy University |
| Prof. G. Nageswara Rao, VC; Dr. B R Ambedkar, Director of the University |
| Dr. Srinivas Madhawan, Yunus Centre Head |
| Dr. Timothy Hagen, Lecturer of Business Administration |
| Professor Carol Tilt, Professor in Financial Accounting, School of Commerce; Dr Sanjaya Kuruppu |
| Dr Sam Wells, Director, Yunus Social Business Centre, Adelaide Business School |
| Ingrid Srinath, Director of the Centre for Social Impact & Philanthropy; Priyank Narayan, Director, Entrepreneurship Programmes |
| Professor Giuseppe Torluccio, Director, YSBC - University of Bologna |
| Kung-Hsiung Chang, Director, YSBC NPUST |
| Dwiti Vikramaditya, Advisor and Trustee, KIIT University & KISS Foundation; Mr. Suraj Roy Dy, Director - Resource Mobilization |
| Dr. Abhineet Saxena, Director, YSBC, Amity Business School, Amity Rajasthan |
| Professor Aseem Chauhan, Vice Chancellor |
| Lin, Chu-Hsiung, Dean of College of Finance and Banking and Distinguished Professor |
| Qin Jianwei, Executive Director of Yunus Social Business Center of Zhengzhou University and Vice Dean of Business School |
| Ng Beng Lean, Group Registrar at Sunway education Group and Director of YSBC |
| Song Kuok Thong, Chair, ASEAN Social Business Conference |
| Valerio Giambersio, YSBC Coordinator, Architect, Director, City of Peace for Children Foundation |
| Nayaz Ahmed, Chief Operating Officer, Jain University Incubation Centre |
| Karla Cronenbold, Director, YSBC |
| Professor Stefano Campostrini |
| Yanniz Valadez, Coordinator of the Yunus Innovation Pathway Center |
| Dr. Didier Chabaud, Professor of entrepreneurship, Past-President of French Academy of entrepreneurship and innovation, co-editor-in-chief of Revue de l’entrepreneuriat (A in French national HCERES ranking) |
| Professor Yung-ho Chui |
| Hen, Tung-Hsiao |
| Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi, Professor and Director at Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) |
| Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor; Akshay Jain, Project Manager – University Partnerships and Student Life |
| Professor Dato' Dr. Abd Aziz Tajuddin, Vice Chancellor and President Prof. Dr. Suraya Hanim Mokhtar, Dean, School of Business and Social Sciences |
| Alicia Rubio Banon, Vice Rector of Employment, Entrepreneurship and Society |
| Prof. Dra. Ana Fernández Laviada, Director of Yunus Centre of the University of Cantabria |
| Dr. Nisha Pandey, Associate Professor and Chairperson Social Entrepreneurship Cell, VESIM |
| Dr. Anastasia Cozarenco, Director YSBC |
| Professor María Isabel Irurita, Director, Management of Social Innovation |
| Mr. Ming-Yen Lee, Associate Professor |
| Professor Filipe Santos, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Dean INSEAD |
| Professor Jose Mosquera, EMI (Emerging Markets Initiatives) Director, School of Management |
| Dr. Lalnilawma, Professor & Head Department of Extension Education and Rural Development |
| Professor Jose M. Sanchez, Director General |
| Dr. Narek Mkrtchyan |
| Stojan Debarliev, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics |
| Dr Francisco Julio Batle Lorente, Director of Yunus Social Business Centre, Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| Prof. Han-Chieh Chao, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering |
| Prof. Wen-yuan Chen |
| Mr. Manish Rajoria, Vice Chairman, Career Society |
| Prof. David Wang'ombe, Vice Chancellor Designate Dr. Jonas Dzinekou Yawovi, Mccj, Director of the Institute of Social Transformation |
| Dr A K S Suryavanshi, Vice Chancellor |
| Prof. Maxime daCRUZ, Vice Chancellor Professor Euloge Ogouwale, Director of VED-UAC, Social Entrepreneurship Center University of Abomey (UAC), Benin |
| Professor Chukwuemeka J. Diji, Deputy Vice - Chancellor, RICE |
| Prof. Charles O. Ochola, Principal |
| Prof. Waswa Balunywa, Principal; Watundu Susan, Senior Lecturer |
| Prof. Deogratius Jaganyi, Vice Chancellor Prof. Mwangi Peter Wanderi (PhD.), PRINCIPAL CORPORATE SERVICES |
| Prof Henri KOULAYOM, Chairman, CAMSCHOOL |
| Dr. Mridul Dharwal, Professor of Economics, Sharda University |
| Prof. Dr. Biswajoy Chatterjee, VC, University of Engineering & Management (UEM) |
| Dr Rajiv Ganguly, Professor & Dean-Science, University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata |
| Dr. Fernando Ponce León S.J., Rector, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Rubén Flores, Coordinador IIE, PUCE |
| Ju-Long Chen, President, Chihlee University of Technology; Prof. B.Y. Hwang, Chihlee University of Technology Yunus Social Business Centre; F. May Liou, Professor & Dean, College of Business Management, Chihlee University of Technology; Ta Hsiang Hung, Assistant Professor, College of Business Management |
| Dr Wardah M Rajab-Gyagenda, DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR |
| Esli C. Gallegos Lozano, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Coordinator; David Berriolope Galván, Director |
| Yoan Noguier, Yunus Sports Hub, Co-Founder & Director; Professor Elisabeth Walliser |
| Dr. Tippawan Lorsuwannarat, President, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA); Associate Professor Patthareeya Lakpetch, Ph.D., Director of Research Bureau National Institute of Development Administration |
| Mike Meallam, Director / Founder of the Center for Social Impact at Payap University |
| Dr. Tsong-Ming Lin, President |
| Dr. Unnruam Leknoi, Director |
| Ruth Espínola Soriano de Mello, Professora IAG/PUC-Rio |
| Mr Sherzodbek Safarov, CFA - Deputy Dean of CAU Business School |
| Jahid Siraz Chowdhury, PhD; Associate Professor of Social Work, Lincoln University College, Malaysia |
| PhD in Industrial Design, Director of Saperi&Co - Service&Research Center, Chair of the graduate program in Design, Founder and Scientific Coordinator of Design4Materials network, Scientific Responsible of Materialdesignlab, Sapienza Università di Roma, Department of Planning Design Technology of Architecture |
| Simona Sinesi, Director, YSBC, SDA Bocconi School of Management |
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