Dr. LEE is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Taiwan WTO and RTA Center, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER). Dr. Lee is members of both the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, and Advisory Committee of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council.
Dr. LEE specialized in trade liberalization policy, WTO, services trade, Non-Tariff Measures (TBT and SPS) and regional integration. He is policy advisor for Taiwan’s trade negotiations with China mainland, New Zealand and Singapore, capital-based expert for Taiwan’s delegation for WTO services trade and TBT meetings and on the general liberalization policy. He is (with Taiwan’s nomination) on the indicative list of Dispute Settlement arbitrators for the Taiwan-Singapore and Taiwan-New Zealand ECAs. In other capacities, Dr. Lee is a frequent column writer on liberalization policy for major newspapers in Taiwan.
Before joining CIER in 2006, Dr. Lee worked as a regulatory expert project consultant, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and the ASEAN–Australia Development Cooperation Program (AADCP). Dr. Lee received his PhD in Public Policy from the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.