Dwight E. Lee is a partner of Gagnon Securities LLC, an investment management and brokerage firm based in New York City. He currently serves as a Trustee and Chair of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is also a Trustee and Secretary of the CUNY Graduate Center Foundation. He served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers for more than twenty years, including twelve as Chairman. Other not-for-profit positions in the past include the Board of Governing Trustees of The Jackson Laboratory, as a Director and Treasurer of the New York Nature Conservancy, a member of the Visiting Committee of the Actors Studio Drama School at New York University, and a director and Vice President of PERC, a Montana-based environmental think tank. He has served on the board of directors of a number of companies including The Foothill Group, Lyons & Burford Publishers, Research Frontiers, Cross Z International and McGinnis & Associates. He graduated from Columbia College in 1969 and the Columbia School of Business in 1972.