Lee, Ryan
Ryan Lee has over 22 years in the policing profession, including as a Chief of Police. He served from 2000 to 2020 with the Police Bureau in Portland, Oregon, USA specializing in public order policing from 2002 to 2020. He rose through the ranks of the public order unit from line officer to senior leadership. He has deployed hundreds of times in public order operations ranging from peaceful gatherings to riots. He served as a front-line supervisor during the 2011 Occupy Portland Protest and as the Operations Section Chief during the 2016 Election Riots and 2017 Inauguration Riots in Portland. Chief Lee has been a subject matter expert in public order policing for the National Institute of Justice, the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the International Association Chiefs of Police's Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center through work with the Federal Protective Service. He was a keynote speaker at the International Public Order Workshop of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and at their Public Order Commanders Course. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from California State University at Sacramento and a Master of Criminal Justice from Boston University.