Successfully Building a Globally Competitive & Profitable African Social Enterprise with Nora Bannerman

Nora Bannerman is an accomplished and internationally acclaimed fashion designer and entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience promoting indigenous businesses and successfully managing a number of companies.

Nora served on the Africa Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA) National Implementation Committee to get Ghana the AGOA VISA that enables the export of over 6,000 Ghanaian products duty and quota free access to the USA market. She is credited with promoting Made-In-Ghana Textiles and Clothing in Europe and the US since the 1980s. Her company, Sleek Garments Export Ltd recently received the Made-In-Ghana Awards for the ‘Outstanding Textile and Garment Company of the Decade’ and has been manufacturing PPE for the Ghana Government to support the fight against COVID-19.

In 2019, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group named her as one of the Top 20 Global Female Business Leaders. Nora received the Woman of Excellence Award in March 2020 for her ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Social and Economic Development of Ghana’. She has been inducted into the Corporate Ghana Hall of Fame, 2021.