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Yunus Centre Press Release (October 29, 2019)
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Her Royal Highness Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex together on stage during the opening ceremony of the One Young World summit at the Royal Albert Hall, in London on 22 October 2019. The event is described as a “global forum for young leaders” and brings together 2,000 people from more than 190 countries. Professor Muhammad Yunus has been attending this event as Counsellor since 2010 when the summit began.
The 10th One Young World Summit took place in London this year from October 22 to 25, 2019. One Young World is a leading forum for youth which annually brings together over 2000 young leaders and change makers from over 190 countries to interact with Counsellors who are prominent persons from around the globe, as a way to accelerate social change. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus attended the Summit as a Counsellor. He was invited to play this role in all the ten Summits held since it was launched in 2010.
The Opening Ceremony of the Summit was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, one of the United Kingdom's most distinctive buildings, on the evening of October 22. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan made the Opening Address. The Duchess of Sussex, Royal Highness Meghan Markle was the Guest of Honour at the event. She shared the stage with Professor Yunus and other personalities such as Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Musician and Activist Bob Geldof.
The Summit took place at Westminster Central Hall. Professor Yunus addressed a plenary session entitled "Poverty Alleviation: Can innovation solve economic inequality?" advising the young people to envision the world they want to create to challenge the existing institutions and policies that are failing to address the climate crisis and unequal distribution of wealth. He encouraged them to becoming entrepreneurs, instead of being job-seekers. He said jobs limit human creativity. He pointed out that the young generation is the biggest hope for reversing the climate catastrophe that we are in the middle of. He warned the youth if we do not act on an emergency basis we would no longer have a planet to live on.
Professor Yunus was accompanied by a youth delegation of ten from Bangladesh selected through a competitive process undertaken by Yunus Centre.
Professor Yunus held an exclusive Question and Answer Session at the Queen Elizabethe II Theatre. He answered questions on microcredit, social business and the practical issues and challenges faced in setting up of social businesses.
Other celebrities who addressed the event were founder of Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson, former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, First Lady of Colombia María Juliana Ruiz, former UN Under Secretary Michael Møller, Former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, Environmentalist Dr Jane Goodall, five-time Paralympic Champion Ellie Simmonds, and Co-Founder of Twitter Biz Stone.
British author J. K. Rowling gave a keynote address to the delegates.
At the Closing Session, Professor Yunus was invited to announce the venue of next year’s One Young World Summit to be held in Munich and invite the Deputy Mayor of Munich Manuel Pritzl on stage to make the welcome speech, thereby bringing this year’s Summit to an end.
The ten-member Yunus Centre Delegation, each recipients of Professor Muhammad Yunus scholarship, with Managing Director of One Young World Ella Robertson, Executive Director of Yunus Centre Lamiya Morshed, at One Young World summit at the Royal Albert Hall, in London.
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