Calvin Lee joined the Harvard Men's Soccer coaching staff prior to the 2025 season as the program’s Operations Coordinator and enters his first season with the program in 2025-26.
Lee, a leading figure in athlete development across the Asia-Pacific region, is a former professional soccer player who competed briefly for Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Super League and in Germany. He then devoted himself to furthering the careers and aspirations of other athletes.
Following five years in consulting and finance with leading management consulting and investment banking firms, he founded Lee Fratelli in 2021, a sports agency and athlete transitions firm. His leadership there drew the attention of Boston College, an NCAA Division I school in the ACC, which in 2024 brought him into its athletics program to lead career readiness initiatives, workshops, and programming for student-athletes across all 31 varsity sports before he moved on to Harvard.
Since 2018, Lee has also served as a Global Ambassador for Aspire Academy, Qatar’s national sports institute. He was handpicked to mentor and serve as a role model for their program, which has produced world-class athletes, including Olympic gold medalist high jumper Mutaz Barshim and the men’s national teams that won back-to-back AFC Asian Cups in 2019 and 2023.
Lee earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand’s top-ranked university, and a master’s from Boston College. He was also awarded a scholarship to Harvard to pursue a master’s degree in education, focusing on the study and research of entrepreneurship.
