Businessman Shahzada Dawood, a passenger on the deep-sea Titan submersible destroyed during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, who is now confirmed dead, was not vice chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), as claimed in social media posts. One user who shared the claim on Twitter said: “One of the passengers on the Titan submarine is Pakistan billionaire Shahzada Dawood - The Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum Coincidence? Dawood is not listed as a board member or employee of the WEF via the organization's website (here). A search for Dawood via the WEF website reveals that he was listed as an attendee at various WEF meetings in his capacity as Director of Dawood Hercules Corporation (here). Shahzada Dawood who died on the destroyed Titan submersible was not a Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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Persons: Shahzada Dawood, Dawood, Suleman, “, ” Yann Zopf, ”, Peter Brabeck, Zopf, Read Organizations: Economic, Twitter, Coast Guard, Reuters, Trustees, Business, Dawood Hercules Corporation Locations: Pakistan