Lee Fulton

Lee Fulton is a Board Director of Chinatown Arts Space (CAS), and she is currently Treasurer, after being the inaugural Chair.  CAS was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in January 2007 after being a consortium-led project supported since 2003 by Westminster City Council as part of its economic development of Chinatown in London.  CAS has been working in partnership with Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House and Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells to offer performing arts festivals and with Shaftesbury PLC in the installation of public arts in Chinatown.

She is an independent management consultant specialising in diversity, equality, business strategy, change and quality.  In 1998, she pioneered the diversification of workforce development through positive action training for minority ethnic graduates in the heritage sector.  Her current and former clients include: Mayor’s Office, Greater London Authority, Royal Geographical Society, Museums Association, The National Archives, Science Museum and MLA.  Prior to being a consultant, she has worked with a number of blue chip commercial organisations, including TSB Bank, Prudential, BAT Industries and Unilever.

Lee served as a Commissioner on the Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage and her contribution towards the “Delivering shared heritage” report (published July 2005) included the writing of chapter 2: “Championing workforce diversity”.  She is currently a member of the Heritage Diversity Task Force, which was set up in November 2006 to implement report findings.

Lee came to Britain from Malaysia to study Economics at Kingston University in the 1970s and she holds an MSc Management Science from Imperial College Tanaka Business School.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Institute of Business Consulting (FIBC).

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Saturday 12 July 2008, 12.15pm Norton Rose LLP
China’s new cultural revolution


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Exploring the length, breadth and heights of China, Royal Geographic Society


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