Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has left Switzerland for home wrapping up his four-day visit to join the World Economic Forum annual meeting in the Swiss city of Davos, reports BSS.
“A commercial flight of the Emirates airline carrying the chief adviser and his entourage 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 the media.
Prof Yunus is expected to reach the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 5pm (Bangladesh Time) on Saturday.
The chief adviser joined a total of 47 formal events during the WEF summit. He joined 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, nine WEF organised programmes (Formal Dinner plus Lunch-04), eight media engagements-08 and two other events.
Since his arrival in Davos on January 21, Prof Yunus passed hectic days through his broader engagements with the global leaders at the annual meeting of the WEF.
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 side-lines 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.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
