GRAMEEN TELECOM TRUST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Trustee
- Trustee & Managing Director / Former Acting Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
M Shahjahan has acted as the Managing Director of Grameen Bank from August 2011 to October 2014. Previously he was the General Manager of the bank and worked as head of Accounts, Finance, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Division. He was also the chief of Operation of Eastern Region of Grameen Bank. At the beginning of his Grameen Career, he was given the responsibility of establishing and designing the Internal Audit Department of Grameen Bank where he served as chief for seven years. He completed his masters both in Accounting and Finance from the University of Dhaka.
Ms. Nurjahan Begum is one of the earliest associates of Prof. Muhammad Yunus during the establishment of Grameen Bank.
Ms. Nurjahan Begum is one of the earliest associates of Professor Muhammad Yunus during the establishment of Grameen Bank. She served as the Acting Managing Director of Grameen Bank soon after the bank's founder Professor Muhammad Yunus left the bank in 2011. She worked as General Manager, Administration, Training & International Program of Grameen Bank for more than a decade and served as Principal of the bank's Central Training Institute. She has also worked as consultant, trainer and evaluator of microcredit programs around the world.
Job Titles:
- Associates of Professor
- Founder of Grameen Bank
- Professor
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, and of more than 50 companies, in Bangladesh, each aiming at addressing a specific social problem, father of microcredit and the concept of social business, which are now being implemented all around the world. Professor Muhammad Yunus is the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees from universities across 20 countries.
He has received 112 awards from 26 countries including state honours from 10 countries. Professor Yunus was the 2006 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize together with Grameen Bank. Other notable awards include the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1984), World Food Prize (1994), International Simon Bolivar Prize (1996), Sydney Peace Prize (1998) and Seoul Peace Prize (2006).
He is one of seven individuals to have received the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the United States Congressional Gold Medal. For his constant innovation and enterprise, the Fortune Magazine named Professor Yunus in March 2012 as "one of 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time.