Background
Koh Tsu Koon was born in Penang in 1949 and attended Phor Tay Primary School and Chung Ling High School. He graduated from Princeton University in 1970 with a degree in physics, and obtained his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1977 in economics and sociology of education. He was a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University from 1980 to 1981.
Koh taught at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang from 1975 and rose to become Deputy Dean of Education in 1978.
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