Lee has been working in the International Higher Education Sector since graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 2004. Upon joining Queen Mary in 2007, Lee has focused on growing the institution’s overseas recruitment activities, initially in Central and SE Asia, Africa and the Indian Sub-continent. In 2013 he became Head of International Student Recruitment before being appointed to his current role in 2017, overseeing Queen Mary’s international and EU student recruitment, international partnerships and student mobility operations, along with the development of the Queen Mary Global Engagement Strategy.