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 Globalization 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
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...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
The Future of EU Leadership in the Car Industry: Still Global
Automotive is Europe’s key export industry, an important contributor to the EU economy, from balance of payments to employment, and a manufacturing base to global and European brands; Balancing the EU’s climate ambitions (and its implied economic transformation) with a successful EU car industry is therefore crucially important. The car industry is at the forefront of new initiatives to tackle the climate emergency, shaped by these new regulations its products...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Subsidising Balkanisation: What China’s 3G Subsidies Teach us about 5G Open RAN
Open RAN is increasingly becoming the answer to how to diversify 5G networks and beyond, especially in the light of a potential exclusion of China’s participation in western networks. In recent times, the US and Japan have jointly pledged $4.5 billion to support its development. Much – or perhaps entirety – of this support is predesignated for the O-RAN Alliance, a closed-door and private industry consortium. State interventionism is back – in a sector...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
The EU Green Deal and Its Industrial and Political Significance
The European Green Deal, the flagship initiative of the incumbent European Commission, aims to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 55% by 2030 (from the current target of cutting 40% of 1990 levels) by overhauling fiscal, trading and regulatory regimes. Brussels is well-placed to deliver the interregional distribution or the minutiae of technical regulations that this challenge calls for. Energy diversification is also central to EU competitiveness and strategic...
Media Mention
Campaign to make Big Tech pay for telecoms networks gathers pace
FT reports on EU telecom market reforms looks to recent blog on interconnection by Robin Baker &...
Media Mention
Huawei chief offers to share 5G know-how for a fee
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comments Huawei licencing plans for the...
Media Mention
Phil Hogan to be the new face of increasingly assertive EU trade policy
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama featured in Borderlex's profile of new trade...
Media Mention
France is giving unilateralism a go
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comments on the French GAFA tax for the...
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
Expanding Digital Protectionism
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama's presentation at METI-JETRO International symposium: “International Trade Rules in the Digital Age – Challenges and...
Speech or Presentation
Free movement of data in the EU
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama speaking at the EIF meeting in the European Parliament, defending the Free Flow...
Speech or Presentation
Brexit and trade: what EU and WTO rules imply
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama speaks at Bruegel on Brexit: on WTO, FTAs, TRQs, CUs, RoO, CAP, TTIP and...
Speech or Presentation
C-SPAN: Cleaning the Slate, Trade under Trump
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama speaking on the Capitol Hill and C-SPAN about trade under Trump, organised by Georgetown CBPP...