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Professor Simon Francis Lee (born 29 March 1957 in Gillingham, Kent). Professor Lee is a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-simon-lee), the Executive Director of the Cambridge Theological Federation () and emeritus professor of jurisprudence at Queen’s University Belfast. He is also chairman of the advisory council of International Schools Partnership. ISP raised £200m and is investing in schools around the world, starting with Spain and the UK. His latest book, Vincent’s 1863-2013, was published by Third Millennium on 6 May 2014 (), the 60th anniversary of Vincent’s Sir Roger Bannister running the first sub four minute mile. Sir Roger Bannister contributes the foreword to the book. Simon Lee was made an honorary member of Vincent’s in 2012. Simon Lee gave the sermon on 4 August 2014 in Great St Mary’s at the Cambridge service to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War () He is on the steering committee of the new Cambridge Governance Labs (). Simon Lee is currently (2013) Chairman of a business called Level Partnerships〔(www.levelpartnerships.co.uk )〕 ==Early life== Lee attended school in Gillingham before winning the highly coveted Brackenbury scholarship to read Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford, where in 1977 he won the Sweet & Maxwell Prize for the University of Oxford Best Distinction in Law Moderations, in 1978 the Winter Williams Essay Prize and in 1979 took first class honours. He then attended Yale Law School studying for the LLM as a Harkness Fellow. Harkness Fellowships were funded by the Harkness family foundation, the Commonwealth Fund of New York, and were set up by Edward Harkness - a major benefactor on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1925 the Fund's Board issued the following Statement; "...International understanding can be forwarded in no more practicable way than through the provision of international opportunities for education and travel to young men and women of character and ability. Such men and women, potentially leaders in their own country, becoming familiar through residence and education with the institutions, customs and ways of thinking of the people of another country, cannot but be a force for mutual understanding and good feeling. Secondly, the importance of unity of thought and purpose on the part of the two great English speaking nations of the world lends a special value to reciprocal educational opportunities in the two countries..." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Lee (academic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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