Dr Khoo Kim Choo is a pioneer in the early childhood field and an international consultant in early childhood. She has served as resource and consultant to various local and international organizations, including, UNICEF (Asia-Pacific, Romania, Mongolia), Save the Children (Singapore, UK, Mongolia), UNESCO, World Bank, ASEAN, Singapore International Foundation (SIF), the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training (Early Childhood Department) and the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI). She also writes for parents, children and professionals in this field.

Dr Khoo has a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Washington specializing in children and families. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Wheelock College. She was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore.

Prior to that she was for many years the Executive Director of the NTUC Childcare, the Little Skoolhouse and the Regional Training and Resource Centre in Early Childhood Care and Education for Asia. (RTRC Asia). She is also the founder/chairman of Sunbird Child Development Centre.

Dr. Khoo serves on various committees, including as Advisor to the MOE-MCYS Preschool Qualification Accreditation Committee (PQAC), Appeals Committee of the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (MICA) and Chairs the Ngee An Polytechnic Early Childhood Education Advisory Committee. She also serves on UNESCO's (Early Childhood Unit, Paris) Peer Review Group for Policy Briefs on Early Childhood. She is also on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy.

Dr Khoo is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in the World and in the Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science. She was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Education in 1992 by Wheelock College, Boston, USA, which also established a scholarship in her name - the Khoo Kim Choo Scholarship for Leadership - in recognition of her contribution to the early childhood field in Singapore.

Dr Khoo recently found out that her three children’s rhyme books – Going Downtown and Other Rhymes, House by the Woods and Other Rhymes and Whose cat is That and Other Rhymes -  received ‘High Commendation” from the Singapore National Book Development Council in 1998!”

See books written by Dr Khoo Kim Choo