Professor Matthew Lee is Vice-President (Development and External Relations) and Chair Professor of Information Systems and E-commerce at CityU. His Vice-Presidential portfolio includes fundraising, branding, communications & PR, alumni relations, community outreach and global engagement at the institutional level. He is a qualified barrister-at-law in Hong Kong and England and Wales, a chartered engineer (UK Engineering Council) and a professional member of the British Computer Society. He is also the immediate past Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, advising the Hong Kong SAR Government on APEC-related economic and cooperation matters, as well as a member of the Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board.

Professor Lee has a research and professional interest in IT based innovation adoption and diffusion (focusing on systems implementation management issues), knowledge management, electronic commerce, online social networks, online addiction, and the development of digital competence. He has published over 100 refereed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and research textbooks.

Professor Lee has an H-Index of 73 and a citation count exceeding 29,000. He is recognised as a top 2% scientist globally in the field of information systems.