Petaling Jaya: Malaysian businessman and philanthropist Tan Sri Sir Dr. Jeffrey Cheah (pix) was awarded the rank of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by His Majesty King Charles III. Mr Cheah is the founder and chairman of Sunway Group Malaysia. This award recognizes his extraordinary accomplishments and contributions to higher education, health services, and philanthropy.
Mr Cheah is the second Malaysian citizen ever to be awarded an honorary knighthood, and the first Malaysian to receive the award from King Charles III.
Chia is also the founder and director of the Jeffrey Chia Foundation, which owns and manages all entities of Sunway Education Group under a non-profit structure.
The Geoffrey Chia Foundation has awarded more than RM670 million in scholarships to provide educational support to deserving students in need, and has awarded scholarships to universities around the world including Cambridge University and Oxford University in the UK. We have donated numerous professorships and professorships to internationally renowned universities. Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US aim to facilitate knowledge transfer and bring world-class experts to Malaysia. Chia aims to give out billions of ringgit in scholarships during her lifetime.
Mr Chia has also deepened his educational links with the UK, successfully partnering with several other prestigious institutions including Lancaster University, the Royal College of Physicians, the Chevening Prize, the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. are doing.
On the healthcare front, the partnership between Sunway Group and the University of Cambridge has seen Sunway Medical Center at Sunway City Kuala Lumpur become a regional site partner of the Cambridge University Clinical Research Center, recently named the Jeffrey Chia Biomedical Center at the University of Cambridge . The Biomedical Campus is the largest such facility outside the US and plays a key role in the UK’s COVID-19 response strategy.
This prestigious knighthood is the culmination of Cheer’s success in 2023.
It was later revealed that the British High Commissioner to Malaysia would present the honorary award to Cheah on behalf of King Charles III.
