Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will head Bangladesh’s interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule, Paralel.Az reports citing AP.

Yunus was chosen during a meeting that included military chiefs, leaders of student protests that helped push out Hasina, prominent business leaders and civil society members. The decision was announced early Wednesday by Joynal Abedin, the press secretary of the country’s figurehead President Mohammed Shahabuddin, who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone.