Education
Wilson Lee Flores spent his two years preparatory schooling at Chiang Kai Shek College in Manila, where he won a prize in a watercolor painting competition with his painting of a tiger. After his father's death, he later spent his elementary and high school years at Grace Christian High School, a Chinese Christian school in Quezon City, Metro Manila. While in Grace, Wilson Lee Flores was the Features Editor of the student publication “Grace Journal” and had been a finalist winner for News Writing at the Metro Manila Secondary Schools Journalism Competition. In high school, he won in the school's General Information and Bible contests.
He studied AB Management Economics (where one of his economics professors was future Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) and later shifted to BS Legal Management at the Ateneo de Manila University, since he found the law subjects of this course more interesting and he was then planning to go afterwards to law school. He became founding president of Celadon, a multi-awarded Filipino-Chinese students' organization and was also managing editor and columnist of the Ateneo's Guidon, the college newspaper. While in college, he once took a summer elective course on watercolor and pastel painting.
He also wrote for the Filipino-language student newspaper Matanglawin, the literary journal Heights, for Icarus newsletter of the Political Society of the Ateneo, was editor of his Spanish language class' newsletter, La Herencia, was among the finalists of the Asiaweek Short Story Competition with his story, The Three Deaths of Madame Hoang, about an ethnic Chinese family in Saigon forced to become refugees. He also studied the Spanish language at Instituto Cervantes. As a college student, his English poems on various themes were published in the "Caracoa" literary journal of the Philippine Literary Arts Council. His Filipino poems were published in "Midweek" magazine and also in the "Matanglawin" college newspaper.
In 2007, Wilson Lee Flores had also been invited to take a special course on economics and history at the prestigious Peking University in Beijing along with other young entrepreneurs and civic leaders from other countries. He was elected president of this international class. Their graduation ceremony was held at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and graced by two ministers.
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