Richard Packard MD DO FRCS FRCOphth FEBOS-CR has been at the forefront of the research and teaching of minimally invasive cataract surgery since he started using phacoemulsification in 1979 as senior registrar to Eric Arnott at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In 1979 he inserted the world’s first folded soft intraocular lens during a rabbit study to evaluate a new hydrophilic lens material.  In 1986 he did a European phaco tour with Charles Kelman lecturing and operating in 5 different countries in 8 days. In 1990 he implanted the first foldable hydrophobic IOL. He has lectured and operated in 61 countries on all aspects of cataract surgery and written many papers in peer reviewed journals.  He is past chairman of the editorial board of OSN Europe. He was a Board Member of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons from 1999-2007 and is a committee member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Since 2000 he has been chairman of the judges for ESCRS Video Competition. He has designed many instruments for cataract surgery most specifically related to MICS. His latest interest is in laser capsulotomy which stimulated the subject for his Binkhorst Lecture in 2015. He has received many other awards including the IIIC medal, AUSCRS Gold Medal, Tun Onn Hussein Medal, Charles Kelman lecturer at VCR Milan, Farquarson lecturer of the RCS Glasgow, Gold Medal at Eye Advance Mumbai. In 2018 he was the Honored Guest of ASCRS in Washington DC and gave the Svyatoslav Fyodorov Memorial Lecture in Moscow. In 2021 hew was the Peter Choyce lecturer at UKISCRS and in 2022 gave the Peter Barry Memorial lecture in Dublin. Richard Packard was consultant surgeon at the Prince Charles Eye Unit in Windsor from 1982-2016. He was in private practice from 1981-2021 in London and Berkshire. He was chairman of the Association of Ophthalmologists UK  from 2007-2011.