Peng Tee Khaw

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Peng Tee Khaw is a Chinese-Malaysian British eye surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, specializing in glaucoma for adults and children. He was born on 8 October 1957 in Singapore. His father, Tan Sri Khaw Kai Boh, was a government minister. The family moved back to Malaysia, where he studied at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur before going to the UK. He studied medicine at the University of Southampton and qualified in 1980. He joined Moorfields in 1987 and, from 1989 to 1994, focused on glaucoma while earning a PhD on ocular wound healing and ways to prevent scarring. He has helped develop glaucoma surgery techniques used worldwide. He is the director of Moorfields’ Biomedical Research Centre and works with UCL’s Institute of Ophthalmology. He has raised more than £120 million for research and new buildings, including funding for the world’s largest Children’s Eye Hospital and a translational research centre.