About the Chair

 

 

 

Professor Yunus

 

Martin Hirsch

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What is the Chair about? Create wealth without creating poverty by Frédéric Dalsace

 

Why create the Chair? by Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot

  

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This Chair is co-presided by Professor Muhammad Yunus and Martin Hirsch, and receives financial support from Danone, Schneider Electric, the French government (DGCS) and private donors. Go to the page dedicated to our partners.

 

Martin Hirsch is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the ENA. He is the former President of the “Emmaus France” charity organization.

He was until recently High Commissioner for Active Solidarities and High Commissioner for Youth in the French government.

He is now President of France’s Civil Service Agency.

    Professor Yunus   

Professor Muhammad Yunus, known as the ‘banker of the poor’, is a Bangladeshi economist and entrepreneur.

He founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.

He has also been HEC Paris Honoris Causa Professor since 2005.

Two presidents, a chance for HEC, by Frédéric Dalsace

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