Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will meet Britain’s King Charles III in a private audience today before receiving the prestigious Harmony Award 2025 at Buckingham Palace, the chief adviser’s office confirmed.
The royal audience, scheduled from 11:20am to 11:50am London time, represents a significant diplomatic honour where the King personally acknowledges global leaders’ contributions. Yunus will subsequently attend the King Charles III Awards Ceremony (1:30pm-3pm) where he’ll be formally decorated, Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told UNB.
Established in June 2024 by the environmentally-conscious monarch, the Harmony Award recognises Prof Yunus’s lifelong dedication to fostering human-environment harmony and sustainable development. The inaugural 2024 honor was bestowed upon former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke recently congratulated Yunus during a Dhaka meeting, to which the Nobel laureate responded: “This is a great honor.” The award reflects King Charles’s personal philosophy of working “with nature, not against it,” administered through his charitable foundation.
