Akhtar Hameed Khan
Akhtar Hameed Khan ( Urdu: اختر حمید خان, əxt̪əɾ hɐmi ː d xɑ ː n ) ( born July 15, 1914 in Agra, India, † October 9, 1999 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist; he did pioneering work in the field of micro-credit, agricultural cooperatives and training programs in developing countries. For his Kumilla model ( 1959) for comprehensive rural development, he received the Ramon Magsaysay Award of the Philippines - as well as an honorary doctorate from Michigan State University.
1974 surveyed Khan as a consultant to the World Bank rural development in Java ( Indonesia). He was also briefly a visiting professor at Lund University, Harvard University and Oxford University. In 1980, Khan to Karachi and worked to improve the sanitary situation in the suburbs of Karachi.
As Khan in 1999 his family visited in the United States, he was suffering from kidney failure and died on 9 October in Indianapolis at the age of 85 years to a myocardial infarction.
Prizes and awards
- Jinnah Award ( posthumously 2004)
- Nishan -e- Imtiaz (posthumous 2001).
- Ramon Magsaysay Award ( August 31, 1963, Manila, Philippines).
- Sitara -e- Pakistan ( 1961).
Khan spoke fluent Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi, Pali, Persian and Urdu.