By Emily Aronson, Office of Communications
Alison Lee, Class of 2024, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. She will attend a one-year, fully funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Lee is one of five Princetonians in the Schwarzman Scholar Class of 2026-27. They are among 150 students representing 40 countries and 83 universities, according to the scholarship announcement. "This year’s selected Scholars are keenly interested in learning about China and broadening their understanding of global affairs, which are both now more important than ever," said Stephen A. Schwarzman, founding trustee of Schwarzman Scholars, in the announcement.
Lee, of Far Hills, New Jersey, graduated from Princeton in 2024 with a degree in computer science and minors in entrepreneurship and in technology and society.
She said the Schwarzman Scholarship will be “pivotal” to her efforts to foster and empower female entrepreneurship and will help expand her work to a global scale. She particularly hopes to learn more about “what conditions in China allow for female entrepreneurs to thrive,” Lee wrote in her application essay.
While at Princeton, Lee established the undergraduate conference FemaleFounded to support and connect female entrepreneurs around the world and was recognized for her work on campus by the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. She also served as president of Business Today and as director of HackPrinceton.
In addition, Lee was captain of the varsity women’s fencing team and a residential college adviser in Butler College.
Lee currently works as an associate consultant at Boston Consulting Group. While an undergraduate, she was a business analyst intern at Capital One and helped manage a session of the Princeton eLab Summer Accelerator program, among other experience.