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.
[4] Lee-Makiyama was nominated in 2012 by the readers of The Guardian newspaper as 'one of the 20 most influential people in the open internet's history'.
[6] He is currently active as director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE).
He also served as an advisor of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and represented the EU member states in the WTO and the United Nations.