Ms. Ava Ardeshir Cowasjee

Member PNSC Board

Ms. Ava Ardeshir Cowasjee's Profile

Ms. Ava Ardeshir Cowasjee is a prominent person in the shipping industry of Pakistan. She did her schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Karachi, and higher education at Roedean School , England. Thereafter she pursued Management training at Hyde Park Hotel, London, Intercontinental Hotel, Karachi, and got her diploma in Hotel Management from the Ecole Hotelier, Switzerland. She worked as Manager, Manpower Development at Intercontinental Hotel, Karachi, for four years before joining the family business.

She became Partner of Cowasjee Group of Companies and has served for 29 years.

She has been the Chairperson of Pakistan Ships Agents Association ‘PSAA’ having already served PSAA for ten years as a Managing Committee Member. She has attended a number of conferences on shipping locally and abroad. She has participated in advanced courses offered by Pakistan Institute of Management Sciences.

She has been a Member on the Management Committee of Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association.

She is the Vice Chairman of SOS Children's Village of Sindh for the last ten years. She is a Member, Managing Committee Hermann Gmeiner School. She is the Trustee of Cowasjee Foundation.