Speaker List | Social Business Day 2026

Vice Chairman, Center for Science Tech Policy and Diplomacy (CSTPD)
Associate Professor & Director, Department of Business Administration Southeast Business School
Bangladesh

Father Enzo Fortunato

Italy

Biswajit Ghosh

Senior Yunus Fellow
Founder of Nabin Entrepreneurship Foundation
India

Carol Gribnau

Director
utch Postcode Lottery Foundation (DOEN Foundation)
Netherlands

Kim Reksten Grønneberg

Director of Communications and Marketing
Nobel Peace Center
Norway

Philippe Guichandut

General Secretary
Foundation Grameen Crédit Agricole
France

Sarder Akhter Hamed

Managing Director
Grameen Bank
Bangladesh

Jeff Hamilton

Lecturer, Bangkok University (BU);Innovation Fellow, Yunus Center AIT (YCA)

Thailand

Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun

Executive Chairman
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA)
Bangladesh

Masahiro Hashimoto

Mayor
Sakai Town,Ibaraki
Japan

Md. Ashraful Hassan

Chairman,
Grameen Group, Managing Director and CEO, Grameen Telecom Trust
Bangladesh

Mahmudul Hassan

Member
3ZERO Club
Bangladesh

Joseph Hazel

Group Chief Executive Officer
Apex Health
United Kingdom

Dr. Muhammad Helaluddin

Executive Vice Chairman
Micro Credit Regulatory Authority
Bangladesh

Professor Dr Haji Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi

Deputy Vice Chancellor
Albukhary International University
Malaysia

Corazon A. Henares

Chairperson
Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF)
Philippines

TSUNEAKI HIRAO

Social Business Implementer

Japan

A.K.M. Sazzad Hossain

Deputy Managing Director
Grameen Bank
Bangladesh

Lacy Hubbard

President and CEO
Elekta Foundation
United States

Qazi Nazrul Huque

Managing Director
Grameen Shikkha
Bangladesh

Professor Mohammed Masum Iqbal

Pro-Vice Chancellor
Daffodil International University
Bangladesh

Shazeeb M Khairul Islam

Managing Director
YY Ventures
Bangladesh

Dr. Emadul Islam

Senior Research Fellow
Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI), The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Bangladesh

Mitsuru Izumo

President
Euglena Co., Ltd.,
Japan

Professor Dato' Ir Dr Mohd Saleh Jaafar

Vice Chancellor and President
Albukhary International University
Malaysia

Christina Jäger

Co-founder & Managing Director
Yunus Environment Hub
Germany

Md Fazlul Kader

Managing Director
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation
Bangladesh

Kavin Kumar Kandasamy

Founder and CEO,
ProClime
India

Manahil Kashif

Program Manager, atomcamp

Pakistan

Jun Kato

President and CEO
ONODERA USER RUN Co., Ltd.
Japan

Ms Khalida

Director
Grameen Bank
Bangladesh

Abdul Hai Khan

Executive Vice Chairman
Grameen Trust
Bangladesh

Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan

Senior Strategic Adviser
Grameen University
Bangladesh

Qasim Javaid Khan

Co-Founder & VP Support Services, Rizq Qasim Javaid, CEO & Co-Founder, Rizq

Pakistan

Suresh K Krishna

Co-founder and CEO
Navaka Social Business Fund Bengaluru
India

Daisy Liu

Senior Planning Specialist
Foundation for Yunus Social Business Taiwan
Taiwan

Shahid Lone

Chairman, Allah Wale Foundation
Founder & Director, Mansha Brothers Group of Companies
Pakistan

Omar Lutf

Co-founder
Grameen Yemen
Yemen

Mr. Feroz Mahmud

Managing Director
Grameen Communications
Bangladesh

Sanjay Kumar Mandal

CEO
Jeevan Bikas Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd
Nepal

Umud Mirzayev

Founder and President of the International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF)

Azerbaijan

Associate Professor Dr. Suraya Hanim Mokhtar

Director, AIU Centre of Excellence Socio-Economic Development and Innovation (ACE-SEDI)
Albukhary International University (AIU)
Malaysia

Lamiya Morshed

Executive Director
Yunus Centre
Bangladesh

Kate Moynihan

CEO/Executive Director
Seva Foundation and Seva Europe
United States

Ibrahim Hasan Murad

Chairman & President
UMT (University of Management and Technology) & ILM Trust
Pakistan

Dipesh Nag

Managing Director
Grameen Danone Foods Limited
Bangladesh

Tania Naznin

Founder & Creative Director
Tanis Bangladesh
Bangladesh

Akkie Okma

Counsellor, Okma Advice
Netherlands

Shiori Onishi

Co-CEO
Grameen Euglena
Japan

Shihab Quader

Yunus Centre
Bangladesh

Sabrina Quaraishi

President and CEO
Grameen Foundation USA
United States

Tasmina Rahman

Managing Director
Grameen Trust
Bangladesh

Dr. Edzel Almanza Ramos

President and CEO
CARD-MRI Development Institute
Philippines

Kate Robertson

Co-Founder and CEO
One Young World
South Africa

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson

Former President of Ireland

Ireland

Paola Samoggia

composer and artistic director, Imagem srl

Italy

Nomrota Sarker

Co-founder & Chief Operations Officer
Saus Taus Global Pvt. Ltd.
Bangladesh

Abdus Sattar

Acting Managing Director
Grameen Shakti
Bangladesh

Ismail Serageldin

Vice President of the World Bank 1992-2000
Co-Chair, Nizami Ganjavi International Center;
Egypt

Tazin Shadid

Founder & Executive Director, Spreeha Foundation & Chairman, YY Ventures

Bangladesh

Professor Faiz H. Shah

Executive Director
Yunus Center, Asian Institute of Technology (YCA)
Thailand

Shovon Azad Shanto

Founder
Watteh Greens
Bangladesh

Tanim Hussain Shawon

Member of the Board of Trustees
Grameen Telecom Trust
Bangladesh

Fahim Uddin Shuvo

Founder and CEO
Garbageman
Bangladesh

Dr. Ahmed Armaan Siddiqui

CEO
Grameen HealthTech Ltd (Shukhee) & Shamadhan Services Ltd (GPay)
Bangladesh

Erik Solheim

Former Executive Director of UN Environment
Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and
Norway

Richard St-Pierre

Quantum and Ai Sovereignty Senior Advisor
Levio
Canada

Nazneen Sultana

Executive Vice Chairman
Grameen Communications
Bangladesh

Abida Sultana

Co-founder
Onnosheba
Bangladesh

Professor Giuseppe Torluccio

Professor, Banking and Finance
University of Bologna
Italy

Ayseba Umutlu

Member of the Board of Trustees
International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF)
Azerbaijan

JUNO WANG

CEO
Foundation for Yunus Social Business Taiwan
Taiwan

Elisa Yavchitz

Paris City Councillor
France

Professor Muhammad Yunus

Chairman
Yunus Centre
Bangladesh

Monica Yunus

Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director
Sing for Hope
United States

Camille Zamora

Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director
Sing for Hope
United States

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