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
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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
Eurooppa-foorumi tuo elokuussa Turkuun kansainvälisiä poliitikkoja
Turun Sanomat highlights Hosuk Lee-Makiyama's participation at the Eurooppa-foorumi conference taking place in Turku from the 28th to the 30th of...
Media Mention
Europe gives China a taste of its own trade medicine
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama via POLITICO on Europe using the threat of tariffs to press Chinese electric car makers to set up in the EU and share...
Media Mention
China Warns of Severe Retaliation if EU Pursues Trade Deal Investigations
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama highlights the risks of an escalating trade tension between the EU and China for Regtech...
Media Mention
China Hints at Retaliation in Worsening Trade Clash With Europe
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama via Bloomberg on Beijing possibly retaliating against the EU if the investigations into Chinese firms...
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
From 25 to 100: New Tariffs on Chinese EVs
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama participates in an event looking at the new 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, and what that may mean for the U.S. and global EV...
Speech or Presentation
Israel Orders Evacuation In Rafah, Xi Jinping Meets Macron | Markets Today 05/06/2024
Hosuk Lee Makiyama comments ahead of the meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping via...
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...