Muhammad Yunus is the inventor of microcredit and social entrepreneurship. He is pursued by hatred of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina.
Her autocratic regime muzzles all opposition, through prison or forced exile. But Yunus refuses exile and is expected in France this summer to highlight the social entrepreneurship initiatives developed under his name for the Paris Olympics. He was sentenced to six months in prison in early January to answer for an alleged violation of labor law in one of his companies, but he is out on bail. He has been a celebrity since he was nominated - an extremely rare double - for the Nobel Prizes for Economics and Peace. His invention of micro credit should have earned him the first, but was finally crowned with the second in 2006.. Today, it has more than 5,000 representatives in 150 countries and has become the tireless proselytizer of social capitalism whose credo is the reinvestment of all profits in the company. Yunus: “An explanation often given for her deep hatred of me is that deep down she is jealous because I am better known than her abroad”