12 Facts About Dominic Lee

Dominic Lee is a member of the New People's Party and a Legislative Council Member representing the New Territories North East.

Dominic Lee is a former member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Yau Yat Tsuen from 2015 to 2019 and the former chairman of the Liberal Party Youth Committee.

Dominic Lee studied at Diocesan Boys' School and the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong before going abroad and graduated from Rice University in 2006 with a degree in economics.

Dominic Lee worked as an assistant in his campus polling station for Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 and later worked as an intern for Democrat Al Green in the US House of Representatives.

Dominic Lee joined the pro-business conservative Liberal Party in 2009 after he returned to Hong Kong.

Dominic Lee became the first chairman of the party's youth committee when it was established in 2011.

Dominic Lee is vocal about his conservative stances on the economy, immigration, and social issues.

Dominic Lee is known for his strong words in opposition to universal retirement protection and was once criticized by an elderly woman over the topic during a legislative council public hearing, which went viral on the Internet.

Dominic Lee supported bar and nightclub operators in favor of resuming ladies' night to avoid potential losses of revenue.

Later that night, Dominic Lee announced his resignation as the member of Liberal Party and joined New People's Party and Civil Force, a district-based political coalition that was established in 2014 by Chairperson of the New People's Party, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee.

In March 2021, after some companies boycotted purchasing cotton from Xinjiang due to suspected human rights violations, Dominic Lee said that some leaders of Western countries and Western media had falsely understood the situation in Xinjiang and have leveled allegations without evidence.

Dominic Lee is one among five members of the New People's Party to be elected to the Legislative Council and will serve a four-year term.