Muhammad Yunus is a Nobel Prize Winner (2006) for combating poverty via the “micro credit system” that he developed in Bangladesh and spread to other countries in Asia. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. He is the author of Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism and Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.
Piotr Dutkiewicz is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.