2000–2019 – Chairperson, Governing Body, BRAC. 2001–2008 – Chairperson, Board of Directors, BRAC Bank Limited. 2001–2019 – Chairperson, Board of Trustees, BRAC University. 2002–2008 – Global Chairperson, International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions (INAFI) International. 2005–2019 – Commissioner, UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) 2010–2011 – UN Secretary General's Group of Eminent Persons for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2012–2019 – Member, UN Secretary General's Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement 2015–2015 – Chairperson, Board of Directors, BRAC Saajan Exchange Limited 2015–2019 – Chairperson, Advisory Board, Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. Awards The Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, 1980 The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award, 1990 The Maurice Pate Award by UNICEF, 1992 The Olof Palme Prize, 2001 The Social Entrepreneurship Award by the Schwab Foundation, 2002 The International Activist Award by the Gleitsman Foundation, 2003 The UNDP Mahbub ul Haq Award, 2004 The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership, 2007 The Inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award, 2007 Palli Karma Shahayak Foundation (PKSF) Lifetime Achievement in Social Development and Poverty Alleviation, 2007 The David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award, 2008 Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), 2010 The WISE Prize for Education, 2011 Open Society Prize, 2013 Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal by The Russian Children Foundation (RDF), 2014 World Food Prize, 2015 Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health, 2016 Jose Edgardo Campos Collaborative Leadership Award 2016 (South Asian Region), 2017 Laudato Si' Award (Institution Category), 2017 LEGO Prize, 2018 Yidan Prize, 2019 Honorary degrees 1994 – Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Queen's University, Canada 2003 – Honorary Doctorate of Education, University of Manchester, UK 2007 – Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Yale University, US 2008 – Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Columbia University, US 2009 – Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Oxford, UK 2009 – Honorary Doctorate in Humane letters, Rikkyo University, Japan 2010 – Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, University of Bath, UK 2012 – Doctor of Laws honoris causa, University of Manchester, UK 2014 – Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, Sewanee: The University of the South, US 2014 – Honorary Doctor of Laws, Princeton University, US 2016 – Honorary Degree of Doctor of Education, University of Bradford, UK Death He was admitted to the hospital in late November 2019 on account of breathing problems and physical weakness. He