The founder and director of the progressive, non-profit, child-centred, bilingual Dalton School Hong Kong, Peggy Yeoh is also the founder and supervisor of the accompanying Little Dalton kindergarten. She is additionally one of the three founders and directors of the Dalton Learning Lab, founded in 2017 to offer robotics, coding, digital-art and digital-music courses to children aged four to 13.

Yeoh came to education after a successful business career, as a senior mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer in Sydney, Australia; executive director of a property funds-management company; and an executive director of YTD, the Australian proprietary company of brands such as Diane von Furstenberg, Tod’s and Vera Wang.

Yeoh is also involved in numerous other educational and cultural charities, including the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, the Hong Kong Ballet, Bring Me A Book Hong Kong, the Sun Hung Kai Foundation and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation.