Director

Lee Williamson is the Asia editorial director at Fortune.

An experienced live event journalist, Lee has interviewed Nobel laureates, billionaire founders, world-renowned athletes and leading politicians on stage.

Before joining Fortune, Lee was most recently an executive director at the South China Morning Post, leading the transformation of the Post’s culture-focused IPs, including its flagship Sunday supplement PostMag and monthly title Style by SCMP.

Prior to the SCMP, Williamson was the founding editor and later the regional head of Tatler Gen.T, a community-focused content and events platform built to connect, inform and inspire the young entrepreneurs shaping Asia’s future through multimedia content and curated event experiences.

He is a former two-term president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong (2023-2025) and a WAN-IFRA Young Media Leaders Fellow.