Lee Seng Tee

Lee Seng Tee FBA (Chinese: 李成智; pinyin: Lǐ Chéngzhì; 16 April 1923 – 29 July 2022) was a Singaporean businessman and philanthropist.

As a director of the Lee Foundation, Lee supported education, particularly higher education, around the world through personal donations towards building libraries and reading rooms, as well as supporting the acquisition of published resources for some of the most famous libraries in the world, which include the Needham Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and the Bodleian Library[4] at the University of Oxford.

[7] Other projects include the Lee Seng Tee Public Library (李成智公众图书馆)[8] in Nan'an City, Fujian, where his father was born.

Lee Lectures provide a platform for scholars and policy-makers to address critical international issues.

[28] In October 2009, he was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Chancellor of the National University of Singapore S. R.