Jason Lee

Jason Lee, a biochemistry and cell biology and political science major from Newark, Del., graduated from Rice University in 2006. He assisted in research on China’s military modernization relations with the Middle East for Bates Gill of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in summer 2005. He presented the results of his research, “China’s Growing Role in the Middle East,” at the Baker Institute in August 2005. Lee was recommended by Thomas Kirlin of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, where Lee was a presidential fellow and Rice representative from 2005 to 2006, conducting research on the regulation of foreign investment in the United States. In 2006, he received a J. William Fulbright Scholarship as a visiting research fellow at the School of International Studies at Peking University in Beijing, China, examining China’s energy development and foreign policy. In 2007, he worked at the law firm Baker Botts in Beijing, and in 2008 began a three-year joint master’s program in government and business administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In summer 2009, Lee interned at the offices of the United States Department of Energy in Beijing.