Hussain dawood group pakistan engineering

Pakistani businessman (born 1943)

Hussain Dawood (Urdu: حسین داؤد; born 20 September 1943) is a Pakistani-Maltese businessman and philanthropist who is the chairman of Engro, Dawood Hercules, and The Dawood Foundation.^[1] He is also the chairman of the Karachi School of Business & Leadership (KSBL), and a director of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute.

Hussain dawood group pakistan engineering

Early life and education

Dawood was born on 20 September 1943 in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai) into a Memon family. His father, Ahmed Dawood, a trader, moved to Karachi with family during partition of India in 1947.^[2]

Dawood studied metallurgy at Sheffield University from where he graduated in 1966.

He went on to study at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and received in 1968 an MBA.^[1]

Career

After completion of his studies, Dawood joined the family business in Pakistan as a finance director.

He became the managing director of Dawood