Andrew Bastawrous

Andrew is a Social Entrepreneur, Eye Surgeon, Professor in Global Health and Multi-Award-Winning Business Leader and Speaker

Professor Andrew Bastawrous OBE is an eye surgeon, social entrepreneur, professor and global health innovator.As a serial founder and CEO of Peek Vision, Andrew has built technology, data intelligence and partnerships that tackle avoidable sight loss at scale. His keynotes combine powerful personal storytelling with practical, leadership-level and board-relevant lessons on purpose, trust, adoption and leading through complexity.

  • Andrew Bastawrous Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    United Kingdom (UK)

  • Andrew Bastawrous Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    United Kingdom (UK)

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Leading with Clarity When the Future Will Not Wait

A field-tested way to decide, align and move before certainty arrives – so uncertainty becomes momentum, not paralysis.

Purpose under pressure

How to turn mission into operating discipline: sharper trade-offs, stronger culture and performance when pressure is highest.

From Idea to Impact in Complex Systems

The hidden work of scale: moving from promise to adoption when evidence, incentives and institutions all pull in different directions.

Technology people trust

Why the future belongs to technology people trust, adopt and champion – not the loudest idea or the most elegant prototype.

Partnerships that move systems

How to build uncommon coalitions that move stuck systems when no single organisation has the power, data or legitimacy to act alone.

Leading with Clarity When the Future Will Not Wait

A playbook for decisive leadership: how to cut through noise, align teams fast and move with confidence before certainty arrives.

Purpose Under Pressure: Turning Values into Strategy and Action

How values become operating discipline, turning purpose into sharper trade-offs, stronger culture and better performance under pressure.

From Idea to Impact: Scaling What Works in Complex Systems

The hidden work of scale: moving from promising pilots to system-wide impact when evidence, incentives and stakeholders collide.

Technology People Trust: Adoption, Dignity and Results

Why adoption is the true test of innovation, and how to build technology people trust, use and champion.

Partnerships That Move Systems: Alignment in a Fragmented World

How unlikely alliances create outsized change when no single institution has enough power, trust or legitimacy on its own.

Seeing What Others Miss: A Founder’s Story of Vision, Persistence and Change

A deeply human founder’s story about seeing possibility early, persisting through setbacks and turning conviction into global change.

About Keynote Speaker Andrew Bastawrous

Andrew is a Social Entrepreneur, Eye Surgeon, Professor in Global Health and multi-award-winning business leader and speaker who has been listed as one of the world’s 30 most influential people in public health.

Andrew’s talks blend science and storytelling to challenge business-as-usual thinking. Organizations come away able to identify and pursue purpose and align their movements around a clear vision with practical steps to use in their own circumstances.

Andrew has delivered two main stage TED talks and multiple TEDx talks. His 2014 TED Talk led to global media interest and was the beginning of the early stages of Peek Vision, a social enterprise that provides software and data intelligence to tackle the outrageous issue of over 1 billion people unnecessarily living with sight loss despite treatments being available.

Since 2015, Peek Vision’s end-to-end services (Peek Solutions) have been used in 50 programs worldwide (including Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and India) and reach about ¼ million people each month. And his vision check app, Peek Acuity, has been used in over 190 countries.

Andrew has been featured in many publications, including WIRED and Vogue. In addition, he and his organizations have received awards from TED, Rolex, UBS, Ashoka, the World Economic Forum, and in 2023 Andrew was recognized in the King’s Birthday Honours with an OBE.

Andrew has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles on international eye health and mobile technology in healthcare and co-authored four book chapters. He is currently working on his new book, See.

Testimonials

“I was amazed, I laughed, I cried and was deeply challenged. Andrew is the only speaker we have brought back – now twice.”

Accenture

 

“Best talk I’ve ever attended.”

PwC

 

“Your talk was truly inspirational and was the highest scored talk across the week – 9.7/10.”

Phillips

 

“Fantastic speaker and fascinating research. I would really like to use my knowledge and experience outside my comfort zone.”

Harvard University

 

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