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Shahzada Dawood (b. February 12, 1975, Rawalpindi – d.June 18, 2023. North Atlantic Ocean) was a Pakistani businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, died alongside three others when the Titan submersible imploded during dur a tourist expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic on June 18, 2023.
Dawood was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on February 12, 1975, the son of Hussain Dawood. His sisters were Azmeh Dawood, and Sabrina Dawood, a philanthropist. His brother was Samad Dawood. His paternal grandfather, Ahmed Dawood, was a prominent Memon industrialist who founded the family business, Dawood Group. Shahzada received an LLB from Buckingham University and an MSc in global textile marketing from Philadelphia University (now Thomas Jefferson University).
Dawood served as the vice-chairman of the Engro Corporation and was a director of the Dawood Hercules Corporation.
Dawood was appointed to the board of the Engro Corporation in 2003. He became the vice-chairman of Engro in October 2021. Before this, he served as the vice-chairman of the Dawood Hercules Corporation. He invested in finding growth opportunities through mergers and acquisitions in textiles, fertilizers, foods, and energy in public-listed companies.
In 2012, Dawood was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Dawood spoke at the United Nations in 2020 on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
From 1996 to 2023, Dawood was a trustee of the family-foundation, The Dawood Foundation (TDF), which focused on education. TDF coordinated the Hussain Dawood Pledge, a private donation to fight COVID-19 in Pakistan. He was focused on efforts to provide mental health support to people hit by COVID-19 in Pakistan.
Dawood was also a trustee of The Engro Foundation, a member of the Global Advisory Board for the Prince's Trust International, a charity founded by Charles III, and a board member of the SETI Institute.
Shahzada Dawood was married to Christine Dawood. They had two children (Suleman and Alina) together.
Dawood became a Maltese citizen in 2016, reportedly through an Individual Investor Programme.
Dawood had a keen interest in investigating natural habitats and renewable energies. He was a photography enthusiast, particularly passionate about wildlife photography and exploring different natural habitats.
In 2023, Dawood and his family departed from their residence in London and journeyed to Canada for the duration of one month. Shahzada, with a year's long passion for science and discovery, booked tickets for himself and his nineteen-year-old son, Suleman, over Father's Day weekend in 2023 to embark on the Titan submersible to view the wreck of the Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after it hit an iceberg. The dive, which was expected to bring the travelers to a depth of 3,800 meters (12,500 feet), began on the morning of June 18, 2023 and was expected to last eight hours. Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes after beginning the descent, the Titan lost contact with the surface ship, the MV Polar Prince. Search and rescue missions involved water and air support from the United States, Canada and France.
On June 22, 2023, the United States Coast Guard confirmed that they had found debris approximately 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bow of the Titanic that was consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber, and concluded that the passengers aboard the Titan — Dawood and his son, Suleman, as well as Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush -- had all died.
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Shahzada Dawood, Executive, 48, and Son, 19, Die Aboard Submersible
Mr. Dawood, a British Pakistani businessman, was the vice chairman of Engro Corporation, a conglomerate owned by one of the richest families in Pakistan.
Shahzada Dawood, a British Pakistani businessman who was among the five people aboard a submersible journeying deep into the Atlantic to view the Titanic, was killed when the vessel imploded during its descent to the ocean floor, the authorities said Thursday. He was 48.
His 19-year-old son, Suleman, who was with him on the Titan submersible, was also killed.
Mr. Dawood was the vice chairman of Engro Corporation, a business conglomerate headquartered in the Pakistani port city of Karachi that is involved in agriculture, energy and telecommunications. His family is known as one of the wealthiest business families in the country.
His work focused on renewable energy and technology, according to a statement from his family.
Mr. Dawood was born on Feb. 12, 1975, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He studied law as an undergraduate at Buckingham University in Britain and later received a master’s degree in global textile marketing from Philadelphia University, now part of Thomas Jefferson University. In 2012, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
His son was a business student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and had just completed his first year, a spokesman for the school said. Like his father, he was a fan of science fiction and enjoyed solving Rubik’s Cubes and playing volleyball, according to a statement from Engro.
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“The relationship between Shahzada and Suleman was a joy to behold; they were each other’s greatest supporters and cherished a shared passion for adventure and exploration of all the world had to offer them,” the family’s statement said.
The pair’s shared passion for science and discovery, friends and family said, led them to embark on the expedition to the wreck of the Titanic.
Travel and science were “part of his DNA,” said Ahsen Uddin Syed, a friend of the elder Mr. Dawood who used to work with him at Engro.
A lover of “Star Trek” and “Star Wars,” Mr. Dawood was also fond of nature and often traveled to faraway places and shared pictures of his adventures, Mr. Sayed said.
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His Instagram profile is like a memory book of his love of travel and nature; it is blanketed with photos of birds, flowers and landscapes, including a sunset in the Kalahari Desert, the ice sheet in Greenland, penguins in the Shetlands and a tiny bird in London with the caption “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.”
“Don’t adventures ever have an end?” Mr. Dawood wrote in a Facebook post last year from a trip to Iceland, quoting Bilbo Baggins from “The Fellowship of the Ring.” “I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
Khalid Mansoor, another former colleague of Mr. Dawood’s, said that Mr. Dawood was a passionate champion of the environment. He was also a trustee at the SETI Institute, an organization devoted to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
In his role at Engro, the company statement said, Mr. Dawood advocated “a culture of learning, sustainability and diversity.” He was also involved in his family’s charitable ventures, including the Engro Foundation, which supports small-scale farmers, and the Dawood Foundation, an education-focused nonprofit.
“Shahzada’s and Suleman’s absence will be felt deeply by all those who had the privilege of knowing this pair,” his family’s statement read.
Mr. Dawood is survived by a daughter, Alina, and his wife, Christine.
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