Lee Wai-Pong went to sea in 1974 and obtained his Master Mariner certification in 1982, later moving into technical and commercial ship management, chartering and ship sale and purchase. He served as Executive Director of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration until March 2016, overseeing the 2015 revision of its Rules and the creation of SEADOCC, its ship collision dispute resolution procedure, and contributed to Singapore's Mass Flow Metering bunkering standard. Since 2016 he has been Principal of LWP.Sg Consultants and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
He has been a panellist at Mare Forum's Maritime Singapore (2019) and Mare Forum Singapore (2015 and 2016).