AMBASSADORS

Professor Andrew Bastawrous

Co-Founder and CEO of Peek Vision

Professor Andrew Bastawrous is the Vision Catalyst Fund’s first Global Ambassador. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Peek Vision, a social enterprise that uses smartphone technology to radically increase access to eye care in some of the most challenging places in the world. Andrew is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon), and Associate Professor in International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where he teaches on public health for eye health and leads a research portfolio. 

“The Vision Catalyst Fund has the potential to change millions of lives by bringing the eye health sector much-needed new resources to deliver proven solutions, at scale. By working directly with governments and eye health providers in low- and middle-income countries, it will help to not just slow down the growing global vision loss crisis, but reverse it. The result?  Better education, prosperity, wellbeing and livelihoods for the millions of people worldwide affected by avoidable vision loss.” - Professor Andrew Bastawrous