Chief Adviser Urges Youth to Be Visionary, Shape the World They Want

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged young people across the world to be visionary, courageous, and determined in transforming their dreams into reality, stressing their unique power to shape a better future.Youth is not the future, youth is the present,” Professor Yunus said while addressing a delegation of young political activists from Sweden and Norway at the State Guest House Jamuna on Saturday.The world is changing fast, and today’s youth are not the same as previous generations. Your upbringing and access to technology make you a different kind of human being — almost a superhuman,” he told the visitors. “All you need to do is ask yourself, ‘What kind of world do I want to create?’ Then commit to it — you have the tools to make it happen.”The delegation, led by Swedish ambassador Nicolas Weeks and Norwegian ambassador Håkon Arald Gulbrandsen, included young political leaders from various parties ...

• 12 Oct 2025