Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus has invited the global investors to invest in Bangladesh in a bigger way as the South Asian country is ready to have enhanced trade and investment ties with improved business and investment climate.
鈥榃e have always been saying Bangladesh is ready for an enhanced business,鈥� chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam told media, highlighting Yunus鈥� extensive engagements on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Switzerland.
Shafiqul highlighted the prevailing business and investment friendly environment with enhanced port capacities in the country which helps Bangladesh to become another
exports hub.
The beauty of the WEF annual meeting was that top executives of global organisations, including prominent presence of private sector leaders, interacted with the heads of the government and states, said the press secretary, focusing on the chief adviser鈥檚 extensive engagements there since his arrival.
Professor Yunus has emphasised social transformation through the enormous power of sports and leverage it as a tool for achieving meaningful social change.
He said that sports should not remain just an entertainment as it had so much social power.
鈥楾here are many things right in front of us. We never try it in a different way. We are not sacrificing anything; we are adding something to it,鈥� said Yunus at a plenary session on 鈥楾he State of Climate and Nature鈥� on Wednesday at an event on the sidelines of the WEF annual meeting.
Mentioning his experience of working for the Paris 2024 Olympics, the chief adviser said that he was invited in 2018 to include social issues to the Paris Olympics and simultaneously agreed.
He said that Milan had also sought his help in hosting the Winter Olympics in 2026 to make it a social one.
Meanwhile, chief executive officer of DP World Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem met Yunus Thursday morning (Davos time) and discussed issues of mutual interest, CA鈥檚 deputy press secretary Apurba Jahangir said.
Yunus continued his broader engagement with the global leaders in the WEF, with over a dozen engagements planned for Thursday, the third hectic day since his arrival in the Swiss city on January 21.
The Forum has brought together governments, businesses and civil society members to improve the state of the world.
Chief adviser鈥檚 special envoy on international affairs Lutfey Siddiqi, SDGs affairs principal coordinator (senior secretary) Lamiya Morshed, chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam, Bangladesh permanent representative in Geneva ambassador Tareq Md Ariful Islam and secretary (west) at the ministry of foreign affairs M Riaz Hamidullah, among others, are accompanying the chief adviser at meetings on the sidelines of the WEF.
聽Sir Nick Clegg, president, global affairs of Meta Platforms Inc and Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International also met the chief adviser separately.
Robert Maersk Uggla, chair of AP Moller 鈥� Maersk in addition to top executives of the global organisations, is likely to meet the chief adviser on Thursday, chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said.
Thomas Eymond-Laritaz, founder and CEO of HIGHGATE (strategic advisory firm), Hugh Evans, CEO, Global Citizens and professor Klaus Schwab, founder, World Economic Forum are also scheduled to meet Yunus, Azad said.
Global media outlets like Reuters, Financial Times and CNBC International anchor Tania Bryer will interview the chief adviser.
聽Over 50 heads of state and government, including Nobel Laureate Yunus, gathered at the WEF being held from January 20-25.
聽The Summit is being held under the theme of 鈥楥ollaboration for the Intelligent Age鈥� and it welcomed close to 3,000 attendees from over 130 countries.
