Honorary University Fellows

Mr Man Ban Lee is a certified public accountant and a lifelong advocate of rehabilitation and community service.

After matriculating from St Joseph’s College, Mr Lee attained his professional qualifications in accountancy in 1959, and began his career as a taxation clerk for the Government. He would go on to become Founder and Chairman of his own firm, M B Lee & Co, Certified Public Accountants, in 1962. In the early 1970s, he was one of the founders of the accountancy statutory body, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (formerly known as the Hong Kong Society of Accountants).

Mr Lee is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation; Honorary President of the Hong Kong Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation; Honorary Councillor of Rehabilitation Services of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service; Honorary Advisor to the Association for Engineering & Medical Volunteer Services.  He was also a former Vice-President of Rehabilitation International and Chairman for Asia and the Pacific Region and former Chairman of the Council of the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Mentally Handicapped.

Mr Lee’s support of this University goes back to 1973, when he established the M B Lee Visiting Professorship at the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. As of 2009, a total of 32 distinguished professor-surgeons have been invited to be M B Lee Visiting Professors. He was a Founding Senior Member of the HKU Foundation and is now an Honorary Patron. 

This year, he established an Endowed Professorship, the M B Lee Professorship in the Humanities and Medicine, to support cross-cultural inter-disciplinary research in medicine and health. 

Mr Lee was made a Justice of the Peace in 1982, awarded an MBE in 1992 and a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001.

Citation delivered by Professor Sum Ping LEE, Dean of Medicine

Mr LEE Man-ban is a certified public accountant and a lifelong advocate of rehabilitation and community service.

After matriculating from St Joseph’s College, Mr Lee attained his professional qualifications in accountancy in 1959, and began his career as a taxation clerk for the Government. He would go on to become Founder and Chairman of his own firm, M B Lee & Co, Certified Public Accountants, in 1962.

In the early 1970s, he was one of the founders of the accountancy statutory body, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (formerly known as the Hong Kong Society of Accountants).

In a chance encounter in the 1960s with Sir Harry Fang, who was treating him for a medical condition, Mr Lee discovered that they shared a strong belief in rehabilitation. This led to not only an enduring friendship between the two men, but also, for Mr Lee, a life dedicated to community service.

Mr Lee is the Chairman of The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation; Honorary President of the Hong Kong Arthritis & Rheumatism Foundation; Honorary Councillor of Rehabilitation Services of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service; Honorary Advisor to the Association for Engineering & Medical Volunteer Services.

He was also a former Vice-President of Rehabilitation International and Chairman for Asia and the Pacific Region, and former Chairman of the Council of the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Mentally Handicapped.

Mr Lee’s support of this University goes back to 1973, when he established the “M B Lee Visiting Professorship” at the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.

As of 2009, a total of 32 distinguished professor-surgeons have been invited to be M B Lee Visiting Professors. He was a Founding Senior Member of the HKU Foundation and is now an Honorary Patron.

This year, he established an Endowed Professorship, the “M B Lee Professorship in the Humanities and Medicine”, to support cross-cultural inter-disciplinary research in medicine and health.

In his own words, Mr Lee says, “I hope this Professorship will help to bridge the gap between academic and public communities by fostering an understanding of the social, cultural and environmental dimensions of disease, health and well-being."

For his outstanding service to the Hong Kong community, Mr Lee was made a Justice of the Peace in 1982, awarded an MBE in 1992 and a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001.

It gives me great pleasure, Mr Pro-Chancellor, to present Mr LEE Man-ban for the Honorary University Fellowship, in recognition of his contributions to Hong Kong and academia.