List of awards and honours received by Muhammad Yunus

A list of awards granted to Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi entrepreneur, banker, economist, politician and civil society leader.

Muhammad Yunus, 2013

Notable awards

• 1978 — President's Award, Bangladesh^[1]
• 1984 — Ramon Magsaysay Award, Philippines^[2]
• 1985 — Bangladesh Bank Award, Bangladesh^[1]
• 1987 — Independence Award, Bangladesh^[1]
• 1989 — Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Switzerland^[3]
• 1993 — CARE Humanitarian Award^[4]
• 1994 — World Food Prize.^[5]
• 1994 — International Pfeffer Peace Award^[6]
• 1995 — Max Schmidheiny Freedom Prize^[7]
• 1996 — UNESCO International Simón Bolívar Prize^[8]
• 1998 — Indira Gandhi Prize^[9]
• 1998 — Prince of Asturias Award^[10]
• 1998 — Sydney Peace Prize^[11]
• 2001 — IDEB Gold Medal Award^[6]
• 2001 — Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (Grand Prize)^[12]
• 2003 — Volvo Environment Prize^[13]
• 2004 — Nikkei Asia Prize^[6]
• 2004 — The Economist's first annual Innovation Award for social and economic innovation^[14]
• 2006 — Mother Teresa Award instituted by the Mother Teresa International and Millennium Award Committee (MTIMAC), Kolkata, India^[15]
• 2006 — Freedom from Want Award, one of the Four Freedoms Awards by Roosevelt Study Centre^[16]
• 2006 — ITU World Information Society Award by International Telecommunication Union^[17]
• 2006 — Seoul Peace Prize^[18]
• 2006 — Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Grameen Bank
• 2007 — The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal awarded by Vanderbilt University^[19]
• 2007 — Order of the Liberator in First Class with Grand Decoration awarded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez^[20]
• 2009 — Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Barack Obama ^[21]
• 2010 — Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award at The Asian Awards^[22]
• 2010 — Congressional Gold Medal awarded by United States Congress
• 2020 — Olympic Laurel, International Olympic Committee^[23]
• 2021 — United Nations Foundation's Champion of Global Change Award.^[24]

State honours

Ribbon/replica	Decoration	Country	Date	Location	Presenter	Note	Post-nominal letters	Ref(s)
	Independence Award	Bangladesh	1987	Dhaka	President Hussain Muhammad Ershad	The highest civilian honour of Bangladesh	–
	National Order of the Legion of Honour	France	2004	Paris	President Jacques Chirac	Officer, the highest civilian and military honour of France.	–	[25]
	Order of King Abdulaziz	Saudi Arabia	2007	Riyadh	King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz	The second-highest civilian honour of Saudi Arabia.		[26]
	Order of the Liberator	Venezuela	11 May 2007	Caracas	President Hugo Chávez	First Class with Grand Decoration, the higest national honour of Venezuela.	–	[27]
	Presidential Medal of Freedom	United States	12 August 2009	Washington, D.C.	President Barack Obama	The highest civilian award of the United States.	–	[28]
	Order of the Sun of Peru	Peru	27 September 2010	Lima	President Alan García	The highest civilian honour of Peru.	–
	Congressional Gold Medal	United States	17 April 2013	Washington, D.C.	Speaker John Boehner	The highest civilian honour of the United States	–	[29]

Scholastic

Muhammad Yunus has been awarded total 69 honorary doctorate degrees from universities across 27 countries.

The list of degrees given below:^[30]

No.	Year	Degree	Institution	Country	Notes
1	1992	Doctor of Letters	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom	First honorary degree
2	1993	Doctor of Humanities	Oberlin College	United States
3	1994	Doctor of Law	Haverford College	United States
4	1995	Doctor of Law	University of Toronto	Canada
5	1996	Doctor of Law	Haverford College	United States
6	1996	Doctor of Law	Warwick University	United Kingdom
7	1997	Doctor of Public Service	Saint Xavier's University	United States
8	1998	Doctor of Civil Law, Honoris Causa	University of the South	United States
9	1998	Doctor Honoris Causa	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
10	1998	Doctor of Social Science, Honoris Causa	Yale University	United States
11	1998	Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa	Brigham Young University	United States
12	1998	Doctor of Science in Economics (Honorary)	University of Sydney	Australia
13	2000	Doctor of the University (Honorary)	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
14	2000	Doctor in Economics and Business (Laurea Honoris Causa)	University of Turin	Italy
15	2002	Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa	Colgate University	United States
16	2003	Doctor Honoris Causa	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
17	2003	Doctor Honoris Causa	Universidad Nacional de Cuyo	Argentina
18	2003	Doctor of Economics, Honoris Causa	University of Natal	South Africa
19	2004	Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa	Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya	India
20	2004	Doctor of Technology, Honoris Causa	Asian Institute of Technology	Thailand
21	2004	Doctor in Business Economics, Honoris Causa	University of Florence	Italy
22	2004	Doctor in Pedagogy (Honorary)	University of Bologna	Italy
23	2004	Doctor Honoris Causa	Universidad Complutense Madrid	Spain
24	2006	Honorary Doctorate in Economics	University of Venda	South Africa
25	2006	Doctor of Humane Letters	American University of Beirut	Lebanon
26	2006	Doctor Honoris Causa	University of Alicante	Spain
27	2006	Doctor Honoris Causa	University of Valencia	Spain
28	2006	Doctor Honoris Causa	Jaume I University	Spain
29	2007	Doctor of Laws (Honorary)	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	First honorary degree in Bangladesh
30	2007	Doctor of Humanities (Honorary)	Rikkyo University	Japan
31	2007	Doctor of Economics (Honorary)	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia
32	2007	Doctor of Philosophy (Honorary)	Ewha Womans University	South Korea
33	2007	Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa	EARTH University	Costa Rica
34	2008	Honorary Degree	Regis University	United States
35	2008	Honorary Degree	University of British Columbia	Canada
36	2008	Honorary Doctorate	Moscow State University	Russia
37	2008	Honoris Causa in Science of Cooperation and Development	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
38	2008	Doctor of Letters (D. Litt)	Glasgow Caledonian University	United Kingdom
39	2008	Honorary Doctorate	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
40	2009	Honorary Degree	Kobe University	Japan
41	2009	Doctor of Law (Honorary)	University of Pennsylvania	United States
42	2009	Honorary Degree	Hokkaido University	Japan
43	2009	Honorary Doctorate	Istanbul Commerce University	Turkey
44	2010	Doctor of Humane Letters	Duke University	United States
45	2010	Honorary Doctorate	Kwansei Gakuin University	Japan
46	2010	Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa	Carleton University	Canada
47	2010	Doctor Honoris Causa	San Ignacio de Loyola University	Peru
48	2010	Doctor Honoris Causa	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos	Peru
49	2010	Doctor Honoris Causa	University of Mons	Belgium
50	2011	Doctor of Science in Economics (Honorary)	London School of Economics	United Kingdom
51	2012	Honorary Doctorate	Tohoku University	Japan
52	2012	Doctor of Humane Letters	Tuskegee University	United States
53	2012	Doctor of Letters	Emory University	United States
54	2013	Doctoris Honoris Causa	European University of Tirana	Albania
55	2013	Honorary Degree	University of Salford	United Kingdom
56	2013	Doctor Honoris Causa	Bolivia University of Aquino	Bolivia
57	2014	Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa	Dublin City University	Ireland
58	2015	Doctorate Honoris Causa	Federal University of Paraná	Brazil
59	2016	Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters	Babson College	United States
60	2017	Honorary Doctor of Science	Chandigarh University	India
61	2018	Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa	Amity University Rajasthan	India
62	2018	Honorary Degree	Autonomous University of Baja California	Mexico
63	2019	Honorary Doctorate	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece
64	2019	Doctor Honoris Causa	Menéndez Pelayo International University	Spain
65	2021	Honorary Doctor of Literature	Sharda University	India
66	2022	Honorary Doctorate in Economic Sciences	University Putra Malaysia	Malaysia
67	2022	Ph.D. Honorary Causa	Cesar Vallejo University	Peru
68	2023	Honorary Doctorate	Ryukoku University	Japan
69	2025	Honorary Doctorate	Peking University	China