Mohammad Bhuiyan Leads World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates 2015
Atlanta has won the honor of hosting the 2015 gathering of Nobel Peace Laureates. The summit will be only the second held in the United States and will see over 2,000 delegates, including Nobel Laureates such as former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S. President Barack Obama, F.W. de Klerk, Lech Walesa, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Shimon Peres, and Henry Kissinger. The Atlanta Summit will follow the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and the opening of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Leading the Summit as CEO is Mohammad Bhuiyan, president and CEO of Yunus Creative Lab Inc.
Bhuiyan worked with 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Ted Turner, Laura Turner Seydel, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed (all pictured at right), The Carter Center, The King Center, and others to bring the Summit to Atlanta.
Bhuiyan’s wife, Shamima Amin, a chief adviser to the Yunus Lab, is also on the leadership team, as are Host Committee members Duriya Farooqui, COO, city of Atlanta; Pradeep Sinha, surgeon, Atlanta Facial Plastic Surgery; and Palaniswamy Rajan, president, TiE.
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"Nobel Peace Prize winners bringing 2015 world summit to Atlanta"
Posted in ABC Articles
Date: October 13th, 2013, 8:19 pm
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 11, 2013
http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/10/nobel-peace-prize-winners-bringing-2015-world-summit-to-atlanta/#sthash.C4ng8qAe.dpuf
Pre-Announcement Ceremony, program brochure
November 22, 2013
https://f69aa27b9b6c6702e27b-ffbfdeddb5f7166a1729dfea28599a63.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/raw_18393_05669c5ee0d4ec911b7ebe1a6c176c7d_World Summit NPL_Program_v5s.pdf
ATLANTA SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES 2015. Atlanta Nobel Peace Laureates Summit Video, Published on Apr 18, 2014
Website updated 9/20/14.
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