December 10, 2020
A Keynote speech by Dr. Choong Y. Lee, University Professor at Pittsburg State University (https://www.pittstate.edu/), Kansas, USA, delivered at the first international anti-corruption conference of Lebanon Certified Anti-Corruption Managers (LCACM) – https://lcacm.org, Beirut – Lebanon on December 9, 2020.
LCACM conducted the conference in cooperation with The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI).
Dr. Lee has been a strong advocate of international education and training programs to help developing countries train government officials, academic leaders, and business executives for their country’s strategic development of a sustainable economy. He has visited about 90 countries and given speeches, seminars, and presentations on promoting international cooperation and collaboration, and he has established many international programs and associated projects in developing countries.
Dr. Lee has contributed to many developing countries in the world with his internationally well-known series of seminars/lectures titled “Strategic Development of a Sustainable Economy”. Specifically, since 2000, he has given more than 120 seminars/lectures and presentations to various groups of national leaders, scholars/academics, government officials, and business leaders in Central Asia and South America.
Dr. Lee’s unique combination of knowledge and experience has enabled him to work for several countries, including Korea, Kazakhstan, Brazil and Kyrgyzstan, as an economic development advisor or consultant. He has been recognized and granted many awards for his outstanding accomplishments and services from various national and international organizations, including the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, and Korea as well as academic institutions in those countries, and in India and the U.S.A.
Dr. Lee has published more than 200 research articles and papers in prestigious journals and magazines and given about 80 paper presentations at national and international conferences. He has published and been interviewed for around 50 newspaper articles and media interview articles, and he has carried out about 60 international projects and programs since 1990. Dr. Lee has an extensive list of teaching experiences at a number of business schools in the U.S.A., France, Korea, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Lee has continuously been delivering lectures/seminars and presentations as well as consulting services to help developing countries establish sustainable economies. Dr. Lee is currently working at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, U.S.A., as the Director of the Center for Central Asian Business and Research (CCABR).
