Sir Ray Avery
New Zealander of the Year
2010
Kiwibank
New Zealander of the Year
Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa
Ray Avery is a New Zealander whose invention of low cost intraocular lenses will mean 30 million cataract blind people in the developing world will have regained the gift of sight by 2020.
Sir Ray Avery is a successful pharmaceutical scientist, inventor, philanthropist, businessman and founder and CEO of Medicine Mondiale.
A founding member of the Auckland University School of Medicine,Department of Clinical Pharmacology and former Technical Director of Douglas Pharmaceuticals Sir Ray has over the past thirty years made a major contribution to the development of New Zealand′s Pharmaceutical industry.
