Tara Uzra Dawood celebrated her birthday with a “Tara Uzra in Karachi” theme, a play on the hit Netflix show “Emily in Paris.” Among the almost two hundred guests spotted at the star-filled, fun event were Khushbakht Shujaat, Sheema Kermani, British Deputy Head of Mission Martin Dawson, German Deputy Head of Mission Birgit Kulhmann, Fahad Mirza, Nadya Mistry, Wardha Saleem, Imran Kureshi, Pomme Gohar, Zurain Imam, Tipu Sharif, Angie Marshall, Misbah Khalid, Mohammad Shoib of Pakistan Idol, Markus Strohmeier, Maheen Usmani, Kausar Irfan, Ameena Saiyid, et al.
Miss Tara Uzra Dawood is the CEO and Founder of 786 Investments Ltd., one of Pakistan’s pioneer asset management companies. It is publicly listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. She also currently sits on the boards of Pakistan State Oil – where she chairs the Audit, HR and IT/Innovation committees, Pakistan Refinery Limited, and Dawood Family Takaful Limited, and previously served on the boards of Mutual Funds Association of Pakistan and Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO). She is further serving on the Energy Sub-Committee of Advisory Committee of the Planning Commission under Chairmanship of Mr. Asad Umar, Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives (PD&SL). She is certified in Corporate Governance by Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG) and Harvard Business School.
