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Mr. Lee has been researching innovative finance at the Digital Finance Research Division of the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF) since December 2022. His research focuses on electronic financial transactions, virtual assets, the advancement of the fintech industry, big tech regulation, and anti-money laundering. As part of the government’s fintech support program, Mr. Lee also serves as an expert advisor for companies applying to the regulatory sandbox. 

Before his tenure at the KIF, Mr. Lee oversaw regulatory affairs at the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) for 23 years, from 2000 to 2022. Mr. Lee actively engaged in various regulatory affairs, including supervision of banks, securities companies, and credit rating agencies, review of corporate disclosures, investigation of unfair transactions in capital markets, and inspections and sanctions for financial companies.

While at the FSS, Mr. Lee endeavored to integrate regulatory practices into policies by working across government agencies such as the Prime Minister's Office and the Financial Services Commission (FSC). In addition, Mr. Lee also served as the Korean representative for IOSCO’s Policy Committee 4 on the Enforcement and the Exchange of Information and Policy Committee 6 on Credit Rating Agencies. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Lee also served as a lecturer at the ADB's FRTI, a training program for financial regulators in Asia, providing lectures on Korea's corporate disclosure system and unfair trade investigation system.

Mr. Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in law from Korea University School of Law in Korea. He obtained an LLM degree in Securities Regulation in 2008 and a SJD degree in Financial Supervisory Systems in 2010 from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, USA. In 2009, Mr. Lee was admitted to the New York Bar. 

Some of his notable publications include “A Study on the Investor Categorization and the Necessity of Protection for Individual Professional Investors and Professional Financial Consumers” (2022), “A Comparative Study on the Primary Market Disclosure Regulation in Various Financial Regulatory Systems of Korea, United States, United Kingdom, and Japan” (2020), “A Study on the Korean Regulatory System for Credit Rating Industry and Policy Implication for Enhanced Reliability of Rating Performance: Focused on the Rating of Structured Finance” (2019), “International Cooperation through the Soft-Law (IOSCO MMOU) to Police Cross-Over Unfair Trading and to Protect Investors” (2016), “Extraterritorial Application of Financial Investment Service and Capital Markets Act: Focused on the Overseas Securities Issuance” (2014) among many others.