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Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Areas of expertise
- Trade and technology
- WTO
- Intellectual property
- Trade in services
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is co-Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). Before joining ECIPE, he was the Senior Advisor on WTO issues to the EU Presidency of Sweden in 2009, serving in Geneva as EU Council Chair on services, intellectual property, customs-technical issues and their related UN/WTO-bodies. He also served on the executive committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
He was Head of EU Affairs of Swedish Trade Council based in Brussels, which acts as the commercial section of all Brussels-based embassies. He was also partner and managing partner of strategy consultancy in Stockholm for 7 years, advising multinational corporate clients on market strategy, distribution and market access. Between 2000 and 2001, he served on the board of US ad agency group Leo Burnett's subsidiaries in Scandinavia, working with 7 of world's ten largest consumer brands.
Lee-Makiyama's research areas include trade & technology, WTO and intellectual property. His academic record includes Political Economy at London School of Economics, Law at University of Stockholm, Economics & Business Administration at Stockholm School of Economics and Trade Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
ECIPE Publications
- Beyond Geopolitics - The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 03/2010)
- Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law (ECIPE Working Paper No. 12/2009)
Articles, Opinion and Commentary
- Testimony by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama in the European Parliament (Hosuk Lee-Makiyama on trade and human rights in the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights in public hearing, June 2th, 2010)
- Google and Goliath (Hosuk Lee-Makiyama writes in The Majalla on free speech online and WTO )
- Online Censorship Equals Protectionism (Fredrik Erixon and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama on online protectionism in the WSJ)
Media Coverage
- Eco news: Obama signe la réforme de Wall Street (Canal Z in Belgium interviews Hosuk Lee-Makiyama on new US financial regulations)
- Le Journal Eco News (Canal Z Belgium interviews Hosuk Lee-Makiyama on Chinese currency and Toronto G20 meeting )
- German Market Curbs Violate WTO Rules, Trade Analyst Says (Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comments Germany's ban on speculative short-selling of securities in Business Week)
- Germany seen risking WTO challenge over shortselling (Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comments Germany's ban on speculative short-selling of securities )
- US Senate Judiciary Committee - Subcomittee on Human Rights and the Law (Hosuk Lee-Makiyama quoted in statement by Rebecca MacKinnon in the US Senate)