Paul Anthony Lee OBE DL (born January 1946) is a British lawyer and businessperson who from 2009 to 2020 was chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board.
Lee read law at Clare College, Cambridge and joined Addleshaw Sons & Latham, specialising in corporate finance.
[1][2] Lee is a board member of the Confederation of British Industry, and was the Chairman of CBI North West.
He has also served as Trustee and later Chairman of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester (1991–2016), as the Chairman of the Feoffees of Chetham's School of Music, and on the boards of the Hallé Concerts Society, Opera North, the Northern Ballet, the University of Manchester, and other cultural institutions.
[3] Lee was appointed as Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport starting from 1 October 2009, succeeding Robert Valentine Hughes.