His grandfather, Alexander King, was a scientist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the think-tank the Club of Rome in 1968.
[2] Peckham attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and Westminster School, before going on to King's College London.
He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
[4][5] He has also written on the history of panic,[6][7] on the putative links between disease and crime,[8] and on the extrapolation of epidemiological modeling in financial theory.
[11][12] His work has emphasized the importance of humanities and social science approaches to epidemics, including during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.