Datin Dr Lee Mei Pheng is a senior partner, banking law consultant and practitioner at Detta Samen & Co Advocates, one of the most established law firms in Sarawak. She is an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya and an Advocate of the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak. She is also a Fellow of the Law Faculty at University of Malaya.

She had previously served at OCBC Bank in Malaysia as Head of the Legal department and Assistant Vice President of the Kuching Branch in Sarawak for ten years and since 1984, been a leading consultant and lecturer for international financial institutions and large corporations. She is also a course director for Euromoney Training in Hong Kong. Her other professional contributions include being a consultant, commissioned author, editorial reviewer and specialist for LexisNexis, AICB and Oxford publications, an external assessor for business and company Law at Wawasan Open University, Penang and author of many publications.

Datin Dr Lee holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Laws) from the University of Liverpool, England, specialising in Banking and Finance Law, with her PHD research on banking fraud. She also holds an LLB First Class Honours degree from the University of Malaya. She resides on the Gold Coast, Australia and since 2000, has been an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Faculty of Law at Bond University, Queensland, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance, as well as a Member of the Law Advisory Board, Bond University, Australia. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, Malaysia (now known as Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers or AICB).