In Bangladesh’s student protests, people said that Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus should lead a temporary government after Sheikh Hasina quit as prime minister and left the country.
Students said late Monday night, “We want to get the process going by morning.” “The president should move quickly to set up an interim government led by Dr. Yunus,”. Besides his professional life as a socialist, but he married twice and a father of two kids. Who is Muhammad Yunus first wife and older daughter Monica? Let’s have a full information about his personal life.
Some people think that Yunus, who is 84 years old, could be the head of the suggested temporary government.
Reuters reported that a Yunus spokesman said he had agreed to be an adviser to the temporary government because of the students’ request. The spokesman said that the Nobel winner would go back to Bangladesh “immediately” after a short medical procedure in Paris.
Who is Muhammad Yunus?
84 years old Muhammad Yunus is a social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and leader in civil society from Bangladesh. He was born in 1940 in Chittagong city. Yunus then went to Vanderbilt University in the US to get his Ph.D. in economics. He is known for his work in microcredit. Giving out small loans is known as microcredit.
This was their third child. They lived in the town of Bathua, which is near the Boxirhat Road in Hathazari, Bangladesh. Muhammad’s family now has nine children after six more were bor
It was Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar who was his father. He was a jeweler. Sofia Khatun was his mother. He spent his early childhood years in his town. The year 1944 was when he and his family moved to Chittagong. He went to Lamabazar Primary School there. In 1949, his mother was mentally ill. Muhammad was the 16th best student in East Pakistan out of 39,000 when he went to Chittagong Collegiate School.
Yunus got awards for his playing in plays while he was at Chittagong College. In 1957, he began going to school at Dhaka University to study economics. He got his BA from Chittagong College in 1960 and his MA from the same school in 1961. In 1969, he got his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in the United States. Yunus taught economics as an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from 1969 to 1972.
Education timeline of Yunus
Muhammad was the 16th best student in East Pakistan out of 39,000 when he went to Chittagong Collegiate School. Yunus got awards for his playing in plays while he was at Chittagong College. In 1957, Yunus began attending Dhaka University to study economics. He got his BA from Chittagong College in 1960 and his MA from the same school in 1961. In 1969, he got his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in the United States. Yunus taught economics as an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from 1969 to 1972.
Married life of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad
Yunus went to Vanderbilt University to study in 1967. It was there that he met Vera Forostenko, who was studying Russian literature. Muhammad Yunus wife was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Russian parents who moved to the United States. In 1970, they got married. There was no more marriage between Yunus and Vera after the birth of their daughter Monica Yunus. Monique has a younger half-sister named Dina Yunus.
Yunus went back to his home country in 1972 to help Mujib rebuild the country after a long and terrible war. He moved by the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. When Vera got back to New Jersey, she told everyone that Bangladesh wasn’t a good place to raise a child. Once Muhammad and Vera were no longer together, Yunus married Afrozi Yunus in 1980.
Muhammad Yunus wife Afrozi was a physics professor at Manchester University. She was given the job of physics professor at Jahangirnagar University. In 1986, they had a girl named Deena Afroz Yunus.
Where is Muhammad oldest daughter Monica Yunus?
Yunus’s Russian grandparents raised her in New Jersey. There, she learned to speak and write English as well as Russian and other Slavic languages. She grew up with Dina Yunus, her younger half-sister. Yunus can also write and speak Italian, Spanish, German, and French well. Getting Yunus interested in singing was a big deal, thanks to her grandma.
Monica‘s grandma started taking her to sing in the choir at their Russian Orthodox Church when she was very young. She would sing with that choir her whole life. Monica Yunus fell in love with classical music for the first time when he joined this church band.
To name a few, Monica Yunus has won prizes at The Florida Grand Opera Competition, The Palm Beach Opera Competition, The Lee Schaenen Foundation Award, and The Mirjam Helin International Competition in Helsinki, Finland. She went to The Juilliard School and got her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees there. Monica Yunus was born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, to parents from Russia and Bangladesh. She grew up in New Jersey.
She is married to tenor Brandon McReynolds, an opera singer. They met at Juilliard.
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