Fazle Hasan Abed

• Founder and Chairperson
  BRAC

Studies at Dhaka and Glasgow Univ. Former Accountant. Awards for achievements in leading BRAC, incl.: David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award (2008); Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award (2007); Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership (2007). One of the “global greats” and founding member of Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship, Ashoka. 2010, appointed by UN Secretary-General to the Eminent Persons Group for the Least Developed Countries. Honorary degrees incl.: Doctor of Humane Letters, Yale Univ. (2007); Doctor of Laws, Columbia Univ. (2008), Univ. of Bath (2010) and Univ. of Manchester (2012); Doctor of Letters, Univ. of Oxford (2009). Knight Commander, Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) (2009).