Lee hee-su graduated from Chung-Ang University with a doctorate in education and worked as a researcher at the Korea Educational Development Institute(KEDI) from 1987 to March 2003. He has been working at Chung-Ang University's Department of Education since 2003. Mainly, he conducted lifelong-education, human resources development(HRD) policy research on the Ministry of Education, local governments and local universities.
On campus, he served as the vice director of the planning office, the dean of the GHRD Graduate School, the dean of the liberal arts college, and the dean of the graduate school. He was the president of The Korean Society for the Study of Lifelong Education, and currently serves as the editor-in chief of the Korean Educational Research Association.

중앙대학교 사범대학 교육학과를 졸업하고 동대학원에서 박사학위를 받고, 1987년부터 2003년 3월까지 한국교육개발원에서 연구위원으로 일하였다. 2003년부터 중앙대학교 교육학과에서 근무하고 있다. 주로 교육부와 지자체 평생교육, 인적자원개발, 지방대학 정책연구를 수행하였다. 교내에서는 기획실 부실장, GHRD 대학원장, 교양대학장, 대학원장을 역임하였다. 한국평생교육학회장을 역임하고, 현재 한국교육학회 ‘교육학연구’ 편집위원장을 맡고 있다.