Jordanian entrepreneur takes first prize at UNCTAD’s debut women in business awards

Businesswomen from Uganda and Ghana
Place second and third

Sana Zaal Burgan, founder of a business that caters to international "medical tourism" clients seeking treatment in Jordan, won the inaugural UNCTAD Women in Business Award at a ceremony Monday at the UNCTAD XII quadrennial conference in Accra, Ghana.  Ms. Burgan's firm, called Med Grant, was begun with US$3,000 and is now worth an estimated $450,000.

She received the prize from Tarja Halonen, President of Finland.