Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has been ranked fifth among global influential thinkers in the Global Thought Leader 2014 survey carried out by the Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic and Social Studies and MIT Sloan School researcher Peter Gloor.
A press release issued by the Yunus Centre yesterday, and reported by the Daily Star, said the top 100 most influential thinkers in the world have been identified through a systematic analysis of the English-speaking infosphere.
The press release said, "The list includes individuals who are influencing the way we think today, whose ideas are determining ours and whose ideas engage people most frequently."
With the help of software-based calculations to produce a simple "influence rank", Gloor presents the 2014 thought leaders ranking. It measures the global importance of creative minds.