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HONORARY COMMITTEE

Mary Robinson, Chairperson of the Friends of Grameen Honorary Committee, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Jacques Chirac, former President of the French Republic, and Head of the “Fondation Chirac: agir au service de la paix” Óscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica, Peace Nobel Prize (1987) William Drayton, founder and current Chair of Ashoka News Michel Rocard, former French Prime Minister 02/11/2011 - Kamal Hossain, founder of Kamal Hossain; Associates, principal author of the Constitution of , first Law Minister of Bangladesh, former Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, former Chairman of the Transparency International addresses the audience of the G20 advisory council Young Entrepreneurs Summit. Read Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India and former Chair of the National Human Rights Commission more of India 08/07/2011 - Professor Yunus James D. Wolfensohn, former President of World Bank, Chairman and CEO Wolfensohn Fund Management, L.P. launches G20 international working Michel Camdessus, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Maria Nowak, President of ADIE (French pioneering NGO for microcredit) group on in Paris, ahead of G8 Meeting. Read more

03/06/2011 - Grameen Fact Sheet: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Summary of recent issues surrounding and Liam Black, President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, British Social Entrepreneur and Co-founder Professor Muhammad Yunus. Read Wavelength Companies Ltd. more Martin Hirsch, Vice President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, Former French minister of alleviation and now president of French youth civil service 13/05/2011 - Friends of Grameen Kerry Kennedy, Vice President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, President of the Robert F. express their ongoing support for Kennedy Foundation of Europe and Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council and President of Professor Yunus, and insist that they the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights will continue their efforts to ensure Esther Duflo, Vice-President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, Economist

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Salman Khan, Vice-President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, Founder of the Khan Academy the independence of the Grameen Jean-Luc Perron, Managing Director Greameen Crédit Agricole Foundation Bank. Read more Eric Lesueur, Treasurer of the Friends of Grameen association, Project Director Grameen Veolia Water Emmanuel Marchant, Deputy General Manager danone.communities and Secretary of Friends of Grameen 12/05/2011 - Resigned letter of association Professor Yunus. Read more

05/05/2011 - Statement of Professor Muhammad Yunus on the occasion OTHER FOUNDING MEMBERS of Supreme Court verdict on May 5, 2011 regarding his removal from Connie Evans, CEO, Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) the association of microenterprise groups Grameen Bank. Read more working in the US Faisel Rahman, Founder and Director of Fair Finance 03/05/2011 - Grameen Bank rejoinder Hajiyeva Jahle, Chairwoman of Microfinance Center and Executive Director of Azerbaijan Micro-finance to Review Committee Report. Read Association and Board member of the SEEP Network more Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Foundation, Said Business School, The University of Oxford Jérôme Auriac, Founding Director of Be-Linked, business and community intelligence 05/04/2011 - French President Jean-Marc Borello, Head of Groupe SOS Nicolas Sarkozy expresses a strong Saskia Bruysten, CEO and Strategic Director of Grameen Creative Lab support in a letter to Professor Samantha Caccamo, Founder and CEO of Social Business Earth Yunus. Read more Alex Counts, President Grameen Foundation Frédéric Dalsace, Head of HEC chair for Social Business Susan Davis, President BRAC USA Emmanuel De Lutzel, vice President Initiative of Change NGO Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Inspiration – Wockhardt Foundation movement Vidar Jorgensen, President, Grameen America and Grameen Research Keep updated Krishan Khanna, Chairman, i Watch a not-for-profit Social Organization Manoj Kumar, CEO Naandi Foundation Laurent Laffont, Publisher of JC Lattès publishing house France Paul Maritz, Grameen Foundation Chair and former #3 at Microsoft, current CEO of VMware Susan McCaw, Former US Ambassador to Austria Arnaud Poissonnier, Founding director of Babyloan micro-finance on the web Pr. Masa Okada, Kyushu University, Head of GCL@Kyushu, Japan Hans Reitz, Co-founder and CEO Grameen Creative Lab and head of Global Social Business Summit Sam Daley-Harris, Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign Jean-Michel Severino, Former head of AFD, French Agency of Development and now head of I&P, a development fund for small enterprises in Africa Shekhar Kapur, Film Maker / Direction Thierry Sibieude, Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at ESSEC Business School Yeardley Smith, Actress Nick Stace, CEO CHOICE, Australian social enterprise for consumers Unni Beate Sekkesæter, Managing Director, Microfinance Norway (NCN) Erika Watson, Founder of Prowess and Full Circle Fund Support Pr. Yunus online Marian Wright Edelman, Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund • Let microcredit flourish in Bangladesh Mel Young, Founder and President, Homeless World Cup • Stop the smear campaign against Pr. Jan Evers, Evers and Jung Director Klaas Motenaar, President European Microfinance Network and General Director Triodos Facet BV Yunus

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Dr. Zasheem Ahmed, Founding Director of The Centre for Development (CfD) Scotland, and Managing Editor of • We stand in support of Pr. Yunus the new international journal – The Journal of Social Business (JSB) • Stop harassing Pr. Yunus Pr. Pamela Gillies, Principal and Vice Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University • Americans for Yunus

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