Date: 14 Mar 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:30am – 10:20am (HK time)
Venue: KKLG102, Lower Ground 1/F, K.K. Leung Building, Main Campus, HKU
Speakers: Mr. David Lee, Principal Lecturer and Deputy Programme Director of BFin(AMPB), HKU Business School, HKU

The purpose of this course is to help you reach your full potential as an ethical leader in your home, workplace, and community. You will likely face a variety of ethical challenges during your life. By drawing on articles, readings, cases, our collective experience, lectures, class discussion, guest speakers, and other material, we will explore ways to deal with such challenges. Ultimately, what we learn in this course will be relevant irrespective of what career path you choose. Most importantly, you should leave this course with a deep belief that you have the ability to influence those around you through your ethical leadership and decision-making. As such, this course will require you to reflect on your own aspirations as you consider the type of influence you want to have as an ethical leader.

David S. Lee is an award-winning teacher that is active broadly in the areas of ethics, fintech, leadership, law, and corporate governance. A recipient of multiple teaching excellence and teaching innovation awards, David is the first business academic to ever receive a UGC Teaching Award, the highest university teaching honor in Hong Kong.

David feels teaching is a wonderful privilege and enjoys being in the classroom and engaging with students. He teaches in the undergraduate, executive education, MBA, and other taught postgraduate degree programs, including the IMBA with Fudan University, and the Executive MBA-Global Asia offered with Columbia Business School and London Business School.

He develops case studies and teaching materials in the areas of corporate governance, decision-making, ethics, fintech, and leadership. He has received funding to explore how technology can be used to develop pedagogy and enhance learning. Combining his interests in ethics, finance, technology, and teaching, David is a co-instructor, along with his colleague, David Bishop, for a first-of-its-kind massive open online course (MOOC) titled, FinTech Ethics and Risks, hosted by edX.

David is a co-author of the first Asia-focused business ethics textbook, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases, An Asia Edition (Cengage Learning Asia, 2019). His commentary and writing regularly appear in print and broadcast media and have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Arirang TV, Handelsblatt, the Nikkei Asian Review, NK News (a North Korea focused specialist news provider), The Korea Times, TRT World, and the South China Morning Post.

Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, David worked in investment management. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and also has experience as a lawyer, in management consulting, and working with entrepreneurial ventures.

David earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law, his M.Sc. (with Merit) in Organisational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, his M.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Philosophy from Cambridge, and his B.A., cum laude, in International Politics and Asian Studies from Brigham Young University. David is a lawyer, a CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charterholder, and a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

David has lived in mainland China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, multiple places in the United States, and currently resides in Hong Kong with his family, who are by far his greatest source of inspiration.