Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Email: hosuk.lee-makiyama@ecipe.org
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Areas of Expertise: European Union EU Trade Agreements EU Single Market Trade Defence Healthcare Services Digital Economy WTO and Globalisation Far-East North-America Russia & Eurasia South Asia & Oceania
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is the director of European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and a leading author on trade diplomacy, EU-Far East relations and the digital economy.
He is regularly consulted by governments and international organisations on a range of issues, from trade negotiations to economic reforms. He appears regularly in European, Chinese and US media, and is noted for his involvement in WTO and major free trade agreements. He was also named “One of the 20 most influential people for open internet” by the readers of the Guardian UK in 2012. He was the first author to argue for a WTO case on internet censorship in China.
Prior to joining ECIPE, he was an independent counsel on regulatory affairs, competition and communication, Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representative of Sweden and the EU member states towards the WTO and the UN, including WIPO and UNECE. Lee-Makiyama is also a Fellow at the department International Relations at the London School of Economics, and currently shares his time between LSE and ECIPE.
ECIPE Policy Briefs
How Huawei Weathered the Storm: Resilience, Market Conditions or Failed Sanctions?
Huawei is exhibiting stoic resilience in the face of US sanctions, economic downturns, and the slow pace of 5G investments. There is a narrative that the company has been propped up by the Chinese government, but the key to Huawei’s resilience is multifaceted. Through pre-emptive stockpiling and ingenuity, the company has continued to fulfil its base station orders and defend its market shares abroad. Concurrently, Huawei has made an autonomous business decision...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
German Industrial Competitiveness and the Metaverse
The metaverse is the next iteration of the internet as an immersive, 3D, virtual, shared world where activities can be carried out with the help of extended reality services. But it is much more than headsets and virtual games. The metaverse is increasingly conceptualised in tandem with other advanced technologies, including AI, IoT, automation, and blockchain. Combined, these Industrie 4.0 innovations will be at the centre of German productivity growth over the...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Industrie und das Metaverse
Das Metaverse ist die nächste Stufe des Internets, das virtuelle 3D-Umgebungen schafft, in denen virtuelle Erlebnisse mithilfe von erweiterten Realität durchgeführt werden können. Es geht nicht nur um Headsets und virtuelle Spiele, sondern auch um die zunehmende Verbindung des Metaverses mit anderen fortschrittlichen Technologien wie Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI), dem Internet der Dinge (IoT), Automatisierung und Blockchain. Insgesamt werden diese Innovationen...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
EU–ASEAN: Shared Objectives, Severed Trust
Co-authored with Joses Wong, Secretary-General of ASEANCHAM EU After 45 years of diplomatic dialogue, EU-ASEAN relations continue to dawdle, lacking real ambition or political will from either side to invest more in the relationship. Even after a recent upgrade in the relationship to a strategic partnership (and continued pressure from the business communities on both sides to do more),the potentialof the EU-ASEAN relationship is still not well understood by...
Media Mention
WTO Extends E-Commerce Tariff Moratorium as Broader Negotiations Continue
The Policy Brief "The Economic Losses from Ending the WTO Moratorium on Electronic Transmissions" by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Badri Narayanan...
Media Mention
WTO Extends E-Commerce Tariff Moratorium as Broader Negotiations Continue
The paper "The Economic Losses from Ending the WTO Moratorium on Electronic Transmissions" written by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Badri Narayanan...
Media Mention
WTO digital tax freeze in spotlight as India, others rue lost revenue
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comments on the debate taking place at the WTO's MC13 regarding the extension of the moratorium on...
Media Mention
The EU’s trade deal with Latin America hangs by a thread. Here’s how to save it.
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comments on the latest developments of the EU-Mercosur deal for...
Article
US industrial policy—the flipside of sanctions
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama opines in East Asia Forum on US energy subsidies, industrial policy and their implications for the EU and...
Article
End Transatlantic Double Standards About Big Tech
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama writes about tech...
Article
In the shadow of America First – three EU trade conflicts flying under the radar
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama writes about the three EU trade conflicts flying under the...
Article
Radical Reforms May Risk South Korea’s Economic Rebound
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama writes for Forbes on President Moon and Korea's trade war with China and KORUS...
Book or Paper
Briefing Note: AI & Trade Policy
The ministerial discussion at the 2018 Tallinn Digital Summit was led by Hosuk...
Book or Paper
On Rule-based Trading in Uncertain Times
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Hanna Deringer discuss New Zealand’s role in the new trade architecture for The Policy Observatory at Auckland University of...
Book or Paper
Technology and Patents: The Imbalances in Europe
Rositsa Georgieva and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama's article on EU and US patent reforms in the digital age, World Economics, Spring...
Book or Paper
TPA and the Democratic disunity — Obama’s trade bill, jobs and income inequality in America
Lee-Makiyama blogs on trade and income inequality at...
Speech or Presentation
Current economic situation is not the best for trade negotiations
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama speaks to CGTN Europe about the WTO's MC13 in Abu...
Speech or Presentation
How bad can the escalating EU-China trade war get?
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama interview with DW News on how China blocking French brandy in retaliation for an EU probe into China dumping e-vehicles are the...
Speech or Presentation
Building Economic Resilience and Security in the Indo-Pacific Post G7 Hiroshima Summit
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama participates in an expert panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) assessing the advancements achieved...
Speech or Presentation
Expanding Digital Protectionism
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama's presentation at METI-JETRO International symposium: “International Trade Rules in the Digital Age – Challenges and...