Professor Kerry Lee joined the Education University of Hong Kong on 20 November 2017 and is affiliated with the Department of Early Childhood Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Development. He is also Director of the Centre for Educational and Developmental Sciences.

Prior to joining the university, Professor Lee was at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His most recent appointments there were Head of Research at the Education and Cognitive Development Lab and Associate Dean at the Office of Educational Research. As Associate Dean, he looked after the Science of Learning initiative and helped established the new Centre for Research in Child Development. Prior to these appointments, he was head of the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. Professor Lee earned his Bachelor degree from the University of Sydney and his Doctorate from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was with the Department of Psychology at Bond University in the Gold Coast before moving to Singapore.

Professor Lee is trained as a cognitive developmental psychologist. His work focuses on mathematical achievement, working memory, and the development of executive functioning. He has published extensively in journals such as the Journal of Educational Psychology and Child Development. He is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction. He serves on the editorial or review boards of Learning and Individual Differences, the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and Frontline Learning Research.