Management
David Hee-Don Lee – Managing Partner, Asia - Pacific
David Lee leads Third Coast International's activities throughout East Asia.
A member of one of Korea's leading families and Co-Chairman for a major technology distribution and integration firm in Northeast Asia, Lee provides Third Coast International with an unparalleled ability to assist our clients throughout the Pacific Rim. His relationships cross national, cultural and enterprise lines throughout the region and include "C" level executives in most of Asia's largest private sector firms as well as leaders in governments across Northeast Asia.
David is a founder, Co-Chairman and COO of HRD, an international provider of technology services for global trade and Third Coast International partner. His family members include the highest level officers in some of Asia's largest industrial firms and occupy very senior positions within the Korean National Government.
Lee serves as the Vice-Chairman and Vice President for Development and Education of the global World Trade Center Association based in New York. He holds licenses to several Asian World Trade Centers and is the CEO of World Trade Center Singapore and World Trade Center Las Vegas through which his business relationships extend across the international and Asian business community.
He additionally is the CEO of the global World Trade Center University which provides distance learning and executive development educational opportunities for corporate executives in the global trade arena.
Lee currently is a Member of the Board of Regents of the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK and carries the title of Founder Fellow / Senior Member of the College at Harris Manchester College of the University. He additionally served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for U.S. – Mexico studies at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla from 1995-1997
Lee holds a BA in Spanish and a MA in International Relations from the Hankuk University of foreign studies in Seoul, ROK, a PhD from Madrid National University in Madrid, Spain and a J.D. from Western State University School of Law in Fullerton, CA.
He additionally has authored articles including Korea-Mexico Cooperation and its role in the Pacific Economic Community (1990), The Pacific Economic Cooperation and Strategy for Collective Security (1997) and The Triangle and the Star: A New Approach to Comparative Regional Development (2001, Co-Authored with Van Whiting, Jr.).