According to the influential The Daily Beast:
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
“Anyone who can obtain a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford and successfully manage the world’s largest democracy has to be the smartest person in the world,” says one of our MacArthur voters, Loren H. Riesenberg of Indiana University.
Muhammad Yunus, Managing director of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
He used his brain to make a dent in the fight against poverty. This “banker to the poor” from Bangladesh is the originator of the innovative microcredit concept, in which financing is doled out to those too poor to receive traditional loans to help them break free from poverty.
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