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Maître SeungPyo (Espée) Hong

EU qualified lawyer (Avocat), SeungPyo (Espée) HONG has extensive experiences in legal academia and practice. His background encompasses Corporate M&A and International Arbitration, gained from roles in Paris and Luxembourg. He has served in the Commonwealth team at ICC’s International Court of Arbitration, worked with a boutique Geneva-based global Arbitration firm, held a former Corporate M&A Associate position at Dentons, contributed to the Autorité de la Concurrence (French Competition Authority), and acted as an external consultant (economist) at the OECD. 

In Technology, he served as the Head of International SpaceLaw Research Division (ISRD) as well as a Legal Counsel at TelePIX, a Korean Satellite and Space Deep Tech Start-up, and regularly intervened in International Space Law regulatory issues and taught International Space Law at Korea Aerospace University as Visiting Professor.

Within academia, SeungPyo focuses on the impact of neo-liberalism in the shaping and forming of the modern international economic and security discourses, especially between the EU and Asia. SeungPyo has had influences from Patrick Messerlin, Prof. Emeritus at Sciences Po Paris as well as Senior Economist at the World Bank and Special Advisor to the WTO Director General.

He advises regularly clients from various industries from Private Equity, Banking, Investment Funds, Real Estate, Space, Aeronautics, Entertainment, Art business, and Sports, and also has a passion for Human Rights Law and Public Service. SeungPyo (Espée) intervened in various Podcasts at University College London, Sciences Po Paris, to name a few. He also publishes chronicles about EU and Luxembourg law developments at Korea Law Times, the main legal journal in Korea and regularly appears in national broadcasting services such as KBS Radio, TvN in Korea.

He is member of Asian Society of International Law, and was Lecturer of International Relations at Korea Naval Academy, as well as a reserve Naval Officer of Republic of Korea Navy (LTJG). SeungPyo is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris with law degrees from Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and holds an LL.M in International Law from the University of Cambridge and has completed Ph.D coursework at Seoul National University School of Law.

He is equally an official Legal Interpreter in Korean, English and French.