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Claudia Lumor

Founder, Chief Executive & Editor-in-Chief, Glitz Africa

The media tycoon behind Glitz Africa has turned her Ghana-based magazine and event business into a valuable showcase for fashion creatives from across the West Africa region.

Biography

Claudia Lumor is the founder, chief executive and editor-in-chief of Glitz Africa, a lifestyle publication and fashion week event of the same name. Her company has become an influential showcase for fashion creatives from Ghana and other West African nations including designers, stylists and hair and makeup artists. The magazine, which celebrated its 10 year anniversary in 2022, takes a pan-African approach to content while her fashion week event connects designers to industry platforms abroad such as the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) and Milano Unica trade show. 

The Accra-based businesswoman worked in banking in London before returning to Ghana to launch Glitz Africa in 2012, in order to tap into the country's rapidly growing fashion, media and consumer market. She is an alumna of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana and studied corporate finance law at the University of Westminster in the UK.

Career

Glitz Africa

Glitz Africa

2012

Education

University of Westminster

University of Westminster

Vital Statistics

Born
17 June 1980
Nationality

Ghana

Location
Ghana
Member since
2022

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