John Lee (bureaucrat)

John Lee (born 22 August 1964) is a former CEO of National Rugby League clubs, Casinos, Resorts Australia, and the Tourism & Transport Forum, a senior Australian bureaucrat, former head of the NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Transport and the State Transit Authority.

He is a Commissioner on the Australian Sports Commission having been appointed in 2011. His involvement includes membership of the Governance and Executive Performance Sub-Committee and previously the Finance & Audit Sub-Committee. HIs community work has included serving on the Advertising Standards Board (2006-2014) and the Mary Mackillop Foundation (2005-2010).

On graduating from De La Salle College (Cronulla) in 1981, Lee successfully completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Wollongong. Whilst studying he held the position of President of the University Union and was an elected member of the Wollongong University Council. At the same time he completed his Sports Medicine qualifications and rose to be the Head Trainer for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks under Jack Gibson and Alan Fitzgibbon. Later he successfully coached junior representative teams for the Parramatta Eels winning the 1992 SG Ball Cup competition.

Upon completing his degree he taught at secondary schools in Western Sydney. During the first term of the Carr Government he worked for Treasurer Michael Egan and then transitioned to work for the State Rail Authority in the lead up to and during the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the General Manager of Communications and Marketing.

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