Lee is the daughter of businessman
Joseph Lee Chung-tak, who founded the Wofoo Group, a plastics manufacturing firm. She grew up in Hong Kong, attending
Maryknoll Convent School where she was captain of the swim team, and also participating in a variety of extracurricular activities including ballet and piano. Unlike many of her friends, she was initially enthusiastic about going abroad for further studies, after completing Form 4 in Hong Kong she chose to attend high school in the United States and then entered the
University of Chicago. She graduated there with a degree in
public policy before going on to
Oxford University to earn a master's in comparative social policy. She later earned a
Master of Education from the
University of Bristol. Lee returned to Hong Kong in 1999 to work as a management consultant. In 2002, she quit that job to take a position in the family business Wofoo Group, overseeing personnel issues and charitable activities. Lee is married and has two sons and one daughter. ==In politics==