Dipal C. Barua
 
Dipal C. Barua is along with Professor Yunus a founding member of Grameen Bank, which was started as an action research project in 1976. He has spent more than 30 years developing and implementing micro-credit packages to make the poor and the rural people an essential part of the development cycle. Mr Barua is now the Deputy Managing Director of Grameen Bank. As the Founding Managing Director of Grameen Shakti, which is one of the most successful rural based renewable energy companies in the world, he is the driving force in expanding renewable energy technologies in Bangladesh.