Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is a Brussels-based economist, trade lawyer and foreign policy commentator. He has written on subjects primarily relating to international trade, digital economy, intellectual property, World Trade Organization (WTO) and European Union-Asia relations, especially with China, Japan and Korea.[1]
Lee-Makiyama has publicly supported the EU's attempt to conclude bilateral free trade agreements with large trading blocs, and with economies in Asia .[2] He is also renowned as an authority on electronic commerce, and was the first author to question the legality of internet censorship under WTO rules,[3] and so far the only scholar to have argued the case in a Chinese academic journal.[4] Lee-Makiyama was nominated by the readers of The Guardian newspaper as 'one of the 20 most influential people in the open internet's history'.[5] He has also proposed a new trade agreement, International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA), to replace the WTO's Information Technology Agreement (proposed by the European Commission to the WTO members in 2012).[6]
He is currently active as director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). In the past[when?], he also served as a diplomat in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,[citation needed] and represented the EU in the WTO and the United Nations.[citation needed]
He regularly comments in European, US and Chinese media.[which?]
References
- ^ "Areas of Expertise". ECIPE.org. Archived from the original on 2011-11-24.
- ^ "Stepping into Asia's Growth Markets". ECIPE.
- ^ "China's Facebook syndrome". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ "环球法律评论 2012年第2期中文提要". 环球法律评论.
- ^ "The open internet poll – who's had the most impact?". The Guardian. London. 2012-04-23.
- ^ "Journal Aussenwirtschaft, 2011, Issue III, Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research". Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research, Univ. of St Gallen.
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