Allen Lee

Allen Lee Peng-fei CBE, JP
李鵬飛
Allen Lee at the 1 July march in 2008.
Chairman of the Liberal Party
In office 26 June 1993 – 5 December 1998
Succeeded by	James Tien
Unofficial Member of the Executive Council
In office 1986–1992
Appointed by	Sir Edward Youde
Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1988 – 15 November 1991
Appointed by	Sir David Wilson
Preceded by	Lydia Dunn
Member of the Legislative Council
In office 1 September 1978 – 31 July 1995
Appointed by	Sir Edward Youde Sir David Wilson
In office 11 October 1995 – 30 June 1997
Constituency	New Territories North-east
In office 21 December 1996 – 30 June 1998 (Provisional Legislative Council)
Personal details
Born	(1940-04-24) 24 April 1940 (age 76) Chefoo, Shantung, China
Nationality	Hong Kong Chinese
Political party	Liberal Party (formerly)
Spouse(s)	Maria Choi Yuen-ha
Children	3
Residence	Hong Kong
Alma mater	University of Michigan (BS)
Occupation	Company director Politician

Allen Lee Peng-fei, CBE, JP (Chinese: 李鵬飛; born 24 April 1940) is a former Hong Kong industrialist and veteran politician and currently a political commentator. He is the former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, serving from 1978 to 1997 and was the Senior Unofficial Member of the legislature from 1988 to 1991. He was also the unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1992. He was the founding chairman of the Liberal Party, a pro-business party in 1993 until he retired after his lost the 1998 election. Since his retirement, he has become a political commentator. Lee currently hosts Legco Review, a RTHK weekly TV programme on the news about Legislative Council, among many other posts.

Lee was born on 24 April 1940 in Chefoo (now Yantai), Shantung, China to a Chinese businessman. His parents had four children. He followed his family to moved to Shanghai to evade war and spent most of his childhood there. His father became a merchant in Shanghai and had represented General Motors, among other US companies in China. He later moved to the United States in 1948. Lee had led an independent life and did not know much about his absent father because they seldom stayed together. Lee knew that his father had married several times, which made him feel rather uneasy.

At the age of 14, he was a leader of the Communist Youth League, and organised marches denouncing the United States because of its involvement in the Korean War. In May 1954, his mother sent him to Hong Kong. attended and graduated from Pui Ying Secondary School. After graduation, he had planned to continue his studies at National Taiwan University but his father intended him to go to the United States. Subsequently, he was sent to the United States and began learning English in Dayton, Ohio. He was later enrolled in the University of Michigan and studied electronics engineering there.