Lee Bofkin DPhil FRSA

Dr Lee Bofkin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Global Street Art, the UK’s largest mural painting organisation, creating incredible murals for commercial and community initiatives. Lee co-founded Global Street Art in 2012, organising murals with artists and local property owners, which evolved into an agency model. Lee has seen Global Street Art deliver over 2,500 pure art murals for communities across London, and hundreds of commercial murals in over a dozen countries. Global Street Art also founded London Mural Festival in Autumn 2020, working with 200 artists to paint large-scale works at 75 sites across 13 boroughs in London with an earned media reach of one billion. Holding a PhD in Evolutionary Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, Lee is also a former UK bboy (breakdancer) and founding member of the Soul Mavericks Crew. After science, Lee had a brief stint in finance, which he sucked at, and, after getting injured dancing in 2005, Lee photographed graffiti as he was travelling with work, documenting and classifying more than 50,000 photos in 25 countries. Lee has spoken extensively about the value of painting in public spaces at WIRED, TEDx conferences and on most street corners to anyone who cares to listen.