Career
He has written on subjects primarily relating to international trade, digital economy, intellectual property, World Trade Organization and European Union-Asia relations, especially with China, Japan and of Korea. Lee-Makiyama has publicly supported European Union"s attempt to conclude bilateral free trade agreements with large trading blocs, and with economies in Asia. He is also renowned as an authority on electronic commerce, and was the first author to question the legality of internet censorship under World Trade Organization rules, and so far the only scholar to have argued the case in a Chinese academic journal.
Lee-Makiyama was nominated by the readers of The Guardian as "one of the 20 most influential people in the open internet"s history".
He has also proposed a new trade agreement, International Digital Economy Agreement ( the International Development & Education Award), to replace the World Trade Organization Information Technology Agreement (proposed by the European Commission to the World Trade Organization members in 2012). He is currently active as director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE).
In the past, he also served as a diplomat in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and represented the European Union in the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. He regularly comments in European, United States and Chinese media.
