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By: Tej Kohli

Tej Kohli is the co-founder of the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation.

  • Climate Change & Sustainable Eye Care

    City Talk

    The last week has seen world leaders and changemakers from around the world gather in Sharm-El Sheik in Egypt at the annual Conference of the Parties event (COP27). This year, the goal is to build upon what has been discussed and implemented at the conference since its genesis in Rio in 1992.  Global Unison Enhancing [...]

  • The Unsteady Rise & Decline of Poverty and How to Tackle It

    City Talk

    One of the largest issues that concern the world is poverty. Someone is described as living in poverty if they survive on less than $1.90 per day. From 2015 to 2018, global poverty continued to decline as it has done for the past 25 years. From 2015 to 2018, the number of those living in [...]

  • Poverty and inequality are harming the world’s children and it’s time to act

    City Talk

    We must do all we can to alleviate the suffering of children during times of crisis to ensure healthy and happy future generations are fostered. A 2020 study on the falling living standards during the Covid-19 pandemic published by Science Advances took evidence from over 30,000 respondents across nine countries, one being Nepal that the [...]

  • We Should Deploy The Lessons of Covid to Combat Needless Blindness

    October 13, 2022

    World Sight Day (13 October) is an international day of awareness to focus the attention on the global issues of eye health. The hashtag for this year’s World Sight Day is #LoveYourEyes. Unfortunately, most of those most in need will not get to engage with this sentiment. Over 90% of the world’s 40 million blind [...]

  • How curing cataracts offers a 1,500% socio-economic return

    April 27, 2021

    According to the World Health Organisation, 95 million people worldwide are affected by blindness or severe visual impairment due to cataracts.  Cataracts are disproportionately prevalent in low-and-middle-income countries, where they account for 50% of blindness, compared to just 5% of blindness within developed countries. The socioeconomic effect of cataract surgery is substantial. It allows people [...]

  • We need a humanitarian vision for AI and robotics

    March 9, 2021

    Robotics and artificial intelligence are beginning to transform a broad spectrum of industries, and I believe that in time, given its near-endless applications, omnipresent AI will contribute $150 trillion to the global economy.  I also believe that humanitarian efforts all over the world will be greatly advanced by emerging artificial intelligence and robotics technologies as [...]

  • Forget Brexit, there’s a reason India’s top tech entrepreneurs are flocking to Britain

    October 9, 2018

    Trade between Britain and India looks like it is about to take an almighty hit. Both sides are in a state of stalemate over a trade deal, and huge Indian companies are issuing warnings about investing in the UK post-Brexit. But scratch beneath the surface, and trade between the country of my birth and the country [...]

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