Donghoon Lee is a senior economist in the Microeconomics Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His primary research interests include labor economics and household finance. He has been working on estimation of equilibrium models in the US labor market, developing econometric and computational methods, and empirical works on household finance in the area of housing finance and education finance.

Lee received a B.A. from Seoul National University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.