Dr Joseph Lee is a reader in law in the school of law at the University of Manchester UK. He was a senior lecturer in corporate and commercial law at the University of Exeter UK and assistant professor of law at the University of Nottingham UK, which he joined immediately after the completion of his PhD at the University of London. Dr Lee has also been visiting professor at the University of Liège, Belgium, the National Taiwan University, and the Judicial Training Institute of Thailand. Dr Lee is a member of the LawTech Advisory Council of the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and an attorney-at-law of New York State.