Queenie Lee is a member of the International Science Reserve at the New York Academy of Sciences, an advisory council member of Harvard Business Review and a global panel member of MIT Technology Review. She received her BSc with honours in mathematics from Chinese University of Hong Kong, her master’s degree in mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she received the NSF Centennial Scholarship in Science and Engineering for two years and the CSU Graduate Equity Fellowship, and her master’s degree in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University. She previously served as a project consultant for UNESCO Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and as an organising committee member of the International Mathematical Olympiad 2016.