Meet The Most Influential Poverty Fighter You’ve Never Heard Of

(April 6) – He’s a Bangladeshi who’s been knighted by the Queen of England. A former accountant who left an executive position at Shell Oil to devote himself to the world’s poorest. And when it comes to eliminating poverty, he may be the most influential man you’ve never heard of. Meet Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and head of a nongovernmental international development organization called BRAC. Today the University of Michigan honors Abed, who is 80, with its Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health.