"Top Lessons I Have Learned from Muhammad Yunus During the Last 38 Years" - Alex Counts

The Institute for International Economic Policy's Yunus Initiative on Extreme Deprivation presents:
"Top Lessons I Have Learned from Muhammad Yunus During the Last 38 Years" featuring Alex Counts.

About Alex Counts
Alex Counts (https://www.alexcounts.com/) spent the first ten years of his career working in microfinance and poverty reduction, training under Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus while living in rural Bangladesh. In 1997, Counts established the Grameen Foundation with the support Yunus and became its President and CEO. He ran the organization for its first 18 years, and remains a friend and volunteer of the Grameen Foundation. Today, Counts runs an independent consultancy for nonprofit organizations, is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), is the Executive Director of the India Philanthropy Alliance, and has authored multiple books. Counts will share insights from his time working with Muhammad Yunus, including his extensive career in microfinance and poverty reduction.

About the Yunus Initiative (https://iiep.gwu.edu/yunus-initiative...)
The Yunus Initiative on Extreme Deprivation at the Institution for International Economic Policy is the George Washington University’s branch of the Yunus Center. The Yunus Initiative on Extreme Development supports research and events related to extreme deprivation, measurement and multidimensional poverty, and Muhammad Yunus’ revolutionary ideas of microfinance and microcredit, globally and here in Washington, DC. The Initiative is also a proud partner of the GWU-Grameen Bank & Trust Partnership and Student Internship Program in Bangladesh and Nepal.

IIEP’s Yunus Initiative focuses on three key themes:
Extreme deprivation: How can academic and policy circles better understand what extreme deprivation is in order to create policy solutions that can have an impact on individuals around the world experiencing it?
Measurement and multidimensional poverty: Understanding what extreme deprivation is requires careful, intentional measurement. Measurement encourages replication, is authentic, and allows for information to be transmitted seamlessly in order to coordinate efforts across stakeholders.
Microfinance/microcredit: How can we build on Dr. Yunus’ work in order to address extreme deprivation? How can policy solutions leverage both the public sector and private sector to facilitate impact?

0:00-5:25 Introduction by James Foster
5:25-48:15 Alex Counts
48:15-1:15:16 Q&A Session