Dr. Richard Lee is the third Principal of HKCCCU Logos Academy since the founding of the Academy in 2002. Dr. Lee holds a BSc and an MPhil in Mathematics from The University of Hong Kong and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK. He also holds a PGDE (Dean’s List, Rowell Prizes) in Mathematics Education from The University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Lee worked for a number of years in research and development and senior management in industry before joining Logos Academy as a teacher and a member of senior management in 2008. In 2011, under his leadership, the Academy achieved accreditation as an IB World School. Serving as the IB Coordinator, Dr. Lee developed the IB Diploma Programme with a team of dedicated and professional teachers at the Academy from inception to fruition as successive cohorts of IB students graduated with brilliant results. Throughout his years at the Academy as Assistant Principal, Dr. Lee also assumed several administrative leadership roles.
In 2018, Dr. Lee furthered his career in education with his capacity as Principal (IB Curriculum and Projects) at an international school in Hong Kong, leading the school to achieving IB World School status and overseeing several major school administrative areas. Through this unique experience, Dr. Lee has broadened his perspectives on the ways in which local and international students are educated with Christian values and global visions.
In 2021, Dr. Lee re-joined the Academy as Principal Designate before taking on the position of Principal in 2022. He shares the Academy’s vision and mission of preparing our students to pursue an abundant life built on truth, goodness and beauty, and of developing the school with an international perspective. As a committed Christian, Dr. Lee has a passion for cultivating our primary and secondary students as servant leaders with the capacity to self-manage, self-learn and self-reflect amid the Academy’s unique learning culture built on the Truth of the Bible.
One of Dr. Lee’s favourite Bible verses is “We love because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19). He also believes “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8).