Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. File Photo

ZURICH (Switzerland), Jan 25, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has left here for home wrapping up his four-day visit to join the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in the Swiss city of Davos.

"A commercial flight of the Emirates airline carrying the chief adviser and his entourage members departed the Zurich International Airport at 9:50 pm (local time) on Friday (January 24)," CA's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS.

Prof Yunus is scheduled to reach the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 5:00 pm (BD Time) today.

The chief adviser joined a total of 47 formal events during the WEF summit. He attended meetings with four heads of government or state, four minister level dignitaries, 10 heads or top executives of UN/similar organisation, 10 CEOs/high-level business persons, 9 WEF-organised programmes (Formal Dinner plus Lunch-04), 8 media engagements-08 and two other events.

Since his arrival in Davos on January 21, Prof Yunus passed the hectic days through his broader engagements with the global leaders at the WEF annual meeting.

On the first day of his visit, the chief adviser joined seven engagements while he held a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the sidelines of the summit.

Prof Yunus also met Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta, Munich Security Conference Chairman Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and Finland President Alexander Stubb.

On the second day (January 22), he joined around 14 programmes and many side events.

The chief adviser held meetings with Wolfgang Schmidt, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Federal Chancellery of Germany; King Philippe, King of Belgium; Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand; Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councilor, Federal Department for Foreign Affairs, Switzerland; Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, United Arab Emirates; Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General; Felix Tshisekedi, Congo President; John Kerry, former US Special Envoy on Climate Change; Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister; and Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; among others, at the WEF.

Prof Yunus spoke at a plenary session titled 'The State of Climate and Nature' during the summit and attended an event of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at a hotel in Davos.

On third day (January 23), he attended 14 scheduled events and many side programmes.

He held meetings with Sir Nick Clegg, President, Global Affairs at Meta Platforms Inc; Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UAE-based global logistics provider DP World; Agnes Callamard, Secretary-General of rights group Amnesty International; Robert Maersk Uggla, Chair of Danish shipping and logistics company A.P. Moller - Maersk; and Anna Bjerde, World Bank's MD of Operations.

The chief adviser attended a one-on-one programme organised by Klaus Schwab, Founder of World Economic Forum at WEF summit, while he addressed an event at the Climate Hub in Davos on the sidelines of the meeting.

On his final day in Switzerland, the chief adviser joined over seven events.
American investor Ray Dalio, founder of Marino Management and Dalio Family Office, also called on Prof Yunus during the summit.

Besides, Amer Alireza, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Xenel Group (Red Sea Gateway Terminal Company), met the chief adviser.