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Dr Nighat Awan OBE is philanthropist and an entrepreneur who was an honorary doctorate by Manchester Metropolitan University for services to business. CEO of the Shere Khan Group.

Life
Worked in the family textile business in Manchester, her first small business was called Suki International

In 2004 Nighat was awarded the O.B.E. in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her services to export and to charity

A multi millionaire with six restaurants in the northwest, a range of sauces sold internationally and a fast food outlet in the Trafford Centre

Dr Nighat Awan OBE chief executive of the Shere Khan group, is a campaigner to raise awareness of Asian women opening up about suffering with cancer. Only a third of Asian women are taking up life-saving breast screening, her own mother Mushtari Siddiqi died of breast cancer aged 51