Mrs. Dawood is a certified Director of Corporate Governance from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG). She has attended courses on Family Business at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, and at the Institute European d’ Administration des Affaires (INSEAD). She is a graduate from Government College of Home Economics, Karachi.

For the last two decades, Mrs. Dawood has been a regular participant at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.