Christine Dawood

Christine Dawood (born June 1975) is a British-German author. She is the widow of philanthropist Shahzada Dawood, who died alongside their son Suleman and three others when the submersible Titan imploded on 18 June 2023 during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic. In 2026, she published a memoir of the disaster, Ninety-Six Hours: A Wife and Mother's Desperate Search for the Lost Titan Sub.

Early life and education Dawood was born and raised in Rosenheim, West Germany, in the mountains of Bavaria. She holds a bachelor's degree in Textile Technology and Management from Reutlingen University, an executive master's degree in Change Leadership jointly from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and HEC Paris, and an MSc in Occupational and Business Psychology from Kingston University, London.

Career After working in Germany, Dawood founded Imhotep Organics Pvt Ltd, an organic farming company based in Lahore, Pakistan.

In 2018, she founded Next Step Now, a UK-based consultancy focused on workplace wellbeing, culture, and change leadership, which was dissolved in November 2024.

Dawood is a trustee of The Dawood Foundation, a Not-for-profit organization based in Karachi engaged in informal education and environmental projects in Pakistan.

Ninety-Six Hours (2026) In 2026, Dawood published Ninety-Six Hours: A Wife and Mother's Desperate Search for the Lost Titan Sub. The memoir draws on her first-hand experience aboard the search vessel Polar Prince during the 96-hour search and rescue operation following the implosion of the Titan, combining a minute-by-minute account of the crisis with personal memories of her husband and son across two decades. Dawood has stated that she wrote the book to restore a human dimension to a story that attracted intense global media attention, and to reclaim her own identity beyond her roles as wife and mother of the victims.

Personal life Dawood met Shahzada Dawood at a university in Germany in 2000 and they married in 2002. They lived in Pakistan for approximately eight years, then in Singapore, before settling in the United Kingdom, where they made their home in Surrey.

Following the disaster, Dawood has spoken publicly about her grief, describing panic attacks, prolonged therapy, and the difficulty of returning to ordinary life. She has said that Suleman's room remains as he left it and her husband's study is untouched. She also has plans to establish a grief and trauma centre.

Works Ninety-Six Hours: A Wife and Mother's Desperate Search for the Lost Titan Sub. London: Whitefox, 2026.