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Born October 28, 1978, in Leiden, Netherlands.
EDUCATION:Attended Wittenberg University; University of Amsterdam, M.Sc., 2004.
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Politician, policy expert, consultant, and writer. Interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; ran a consulting bureau; European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, member from the Netherlands, 2009-19, and founder of European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe; CyberPeace Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, president, 2019-21; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, international policy director at Cyber Policy Center, international policy fellow at Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 2019–. Member of the United Nations’ AI Advisory Body and of the advisory boards of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Observer Research Foundation, and Access Now.
AWARDS:Lantos Fellowship, U.S. House of Representatives; Barney Karbank Memorial Award for leadership in human rights, 2007; Named one of 28 most influential Europeans, Politico, 2017.
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Author of monthly column for the Financial Times.
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[open new]A political scientist from the Netherlands, Marietje Schaake served in the European Parliament and specializes in cyber policy at Stanford University. She was born in Leiden in 1978. After crossing the Atlantic to study at Wittenberg University, in Ohio, for a year, she enrolled at the University of Amsterdam and earned a master’s degree in American studies in 2004. For a time she operated her own consulting bureau, with clients including the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was elected to Europe’s parliament at just thirty years of age, representing the liberal-centrist Democrats 66 party—a faction of the broader Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe—which won three of the Netherlands’ then twenty-five seats. During her two five-year terms from 2009 to 2019, her committee assignments were centered on culture, education, international trade, and foreign relations, especially with the United States. In addition to her positions as a cyber policy director and artificial intelligence fellow at Stanford, Schaake served as president of the Geneva-based CyberPeace Institute from 2019 to 2021.
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley is Schaake’s first book. Her guiding concern is that the most dominant technology companies—Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon—have infiltrated governments in ways that give them outsized influence. Beyond offering essential digital and cloud services to government entities, tech companies are contracted for surveillance and other sensitive operations and wield massive wealth. They have largely steered governments away from restrictive regulations, arguing that they would stifle innovation, but Schaake holds other industries up as offering models for balancing the needs for both. Europe is taking the lead in setting up regulatory controls, shifting the focus to the importance of following through with enforcement. With U.S. politicians from both sides of the aisle ready to hold TikTok to account, and with strong international support for the Declaration on the Future of the Internet, promulgated in 2022, democracy is poised to keep technology in check.
Recognizing that Schaake’s “voice is significant,” by virtue of her political and professional credentials, a Kirkus Reviews writer declared that she “puts forward some useful suggestions” and “demonstrates the importance of making sure democratic institutions are protected.” The reviewer concluded that The Tech Coup proves “both alarming and hopeful” as Schaake discourses “with hard-won experience and clear-minded intelligence.”[close new]
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Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 2024, review of The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley.
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European Council on Foreign Relations website, https://ecfr.eu/ (September 9, 2024), author profile.
European Parliament website, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ (September 9, 2024), author profile.
Framer Framed, https://framerframed.nl/en/ (September 9, 2024), author profile.
Stanford University, Cyber Policy Center website, https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ (September 9, 2024), author profile.
Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director at the Cyber Policy Center
International Policy Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
mschaake@stanford.edu
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Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In September 2024, her book ‘The Tech Coup, How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley’ comes out with Princeton University Press.
Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a Member of European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party where she focused on trade, foreign affairs, and technology policies. She writes a monthly column for the Financial Times and serves on the UN’s AI Advisory Body.
Marietje is an (Advisory) Board Member with a number of non-profits including MERICS, ECFR, ORF and AccessNow.
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Marietje Schaake
MEP
Schaake during the WEF 2019
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2009 – 2019
Constituency Netherlands
Personal details
Born 28 October 1978 (age 45)
Leiden, Netherlands
Political party Dutch
Democrats 66
EU
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alma mater University of Amsterdam Wittenberg University
Website www.marietjeschaake.eu Edit this at Wikidata
Maria Renske "Marietje" Schaake (Dutch pronunciation: [maːˈricə ˈsxaːkə]; born 28 October 1978) is a Dutch politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. She is a member of Democrats 66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.[1]
Schaake has been named international director of policy at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, as well as an International Policy Fellow at the University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.[2]
At the CyberPeace Institute (CPI) she takes the role of president. CPI seeks to reduce the harms of escalating conflict in cyberspace, perform collective analysis of cyberattacks with the aim of informing the public, supporting vulnerable communities, and promoting responsible behavior, norms and respect for international law.[3]
She writes a column for the Financial Times[4] and the Dutch NRC newspaper’s economic section twice a month.[5]
The Wall Street Journal called her "Europe's most wired politician",[6] while CNN called her a "rising Dutch star" who makes an increasingly rare "passionate and public case for liberalism and globalization".[7] She was selected as one of the "Politico 28" in 2017. During her last months in office in 2019, Politico also called her one of the 40 MEP's who mattered in 2014–2019.[8] According to Politico, Schaake is the "ultimate digital MEP" whose name has been floated as a potential candidate for the foreign ministry".[9] The magazine also called her a "lead MEP on cybersecurity".[10] In 2017 she was invited as a 'civic leader' to address the Obama Foundation summit.[11] She publishes op-eds in the Financial Times,[12] The Guardian[13] and Bloomberg.[14]
Education and early career
Schaake was raised in Leiden and attended the Haags Montessori Lyceum (high school) in The Hague. She then left for the United States to study liberal arts at Wittenberg University in Ohio. She then studied sociology, American studies and new media at the University of Amsterdam. After an internship with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Schaake was granted the Lantos Fellowship of the United States House of Representatives, where she focused on international relations and human rights issues.[15]
Before her political career, Schaake served as an independent advisor to, amongst others, the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and to the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. Other assignments included consulting the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as cultural institutes and companies. Schaake specialized in issues such as transatlantic relations, diversity, integration, civil rights and Muslims in the West. In 2007 she received the Barney Karbank Memorial Award 2007 for outstanding leadership on the issue of human rights.[15]
Political career
Marietje Schaake in 2010
Marietje Schaake in 2012
Marietje Schaake speaking at Columbia University 2018
In the autumn of 2008, Schaake was nominated as candidate for the European Parliament for the Dutch political party Democrats 66 (D66). In the European Parliament elections of 2009, Schaake was elected at age 30 when D66 won three seats. In the 2014 elections, she was re-elected for a second term.[15]
In the European Parliament, Schaake was the ALDE Coordinator of the International Trade committee (INTA). She was also the spokesperson for the ALDE Group on the Canada-EU Trade Agreement[16] Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).[1] In 2016, she served as the parliament's rapporteur on a ban on trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other treatment or punishment.[17] She then pushed for stricter export controls for cybersurveillance technologies through her work on the dual-use legislation.[18] Schaake also advanced stronger oversight over the trade in cultural goods from conflict areas.
Schaake additionally served on the committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), where she focused on strengthening Europe as a global player. She worked on the EU's neighbourhood policy, notably Turkey, Iran and North Africa and the broader Middle East. In the subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), she spoke on human rights and coordinated the monthly human rights resolutions for ALDE.[1]
During her period in parliament, Schaake took several initiatives to promote digital freedoms and to include them in European Union foreign policy. She was the vice-president of the delegation for relations with the United States and served in the delegation for relations with Iran, and in the delegation for the Arab peninsula. Schaake pushed for completing Europe's Digital Single Market and copyright reform. She supports an open internet in discussions about internet governance and digital (human) rights.[1]
Schaake established the Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe. In this group members of the European Parliament, cross-party and cross-nationality, work together in strengthening the digital agenda for Europe.[19]
In March 2011, the European Parliament adopted Schaake's report on the Cultural Dimensions of the EU's External Actions.[20] This was followed by the adoption of Schaake's report on a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy in December 2012[21] and her report on Freedom of the Press and Media in the World in June 2013.[22] Furthermore, in April 2014 the European Parliament supported Schaake's amendments to enshrine net neutrality into European telecommunications legislation.
In 2017, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and vice-president of the European Commission, appointed Schaake as chief observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Kenya.[23] In 2017, she was also appointed to represent the European Parliament to the board of the Madad fund. This European Commission Trust Fund concentrates the financial support of different EU institutions, member states and other donors under one heading to more effectively distribute aid to those within Syria and its surrounding countries.
In 2017, Schaake was appointed to the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace,[24] and served on the commission until its successful conclusion in 2019, participating in the drafting of its eight norms related to non-aggression in cyberspace.
In September 2018 Schaake announced she would not seek a 3rd term and would not participate in the 2019 European elections.[25]
Later career
On 25 September 2020, Schaake was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook.[26]
Schaake was also a candidate to become United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres's first-ever Envoy on Technology in 2021; instead, the role went to Chilean diplomat Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond.[27][28] In 2023, Guterres appointed Schaake to his Artificial Intelligence Advisory Body on risks, opportunities and international governance of artificial intelligence, co-chaired by Carme Artigas and James Manyika.[29]
Other activities
Schaake has several unpaid additional positions, including the following:
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Member of the Board (since 2021)[30]
European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), member of the board of trustees (since 2020)[31]
European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, advisory board member
Reporters Without Borders, Information and Democracy Working Group, co-chair
Reset, advisory board
IvIR Law and Policy Lab, advisory board
Access Now, board member
Friends of Europe, board of trustees
Observer Research Foundation, global board member
Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI), member (since 2018)[32]
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, commissioner
Chatham House Commission on Democracy and Technology, member
Design 4 Democracy coalition, advisory board member
Centre for Humane Technology, advisor
Digital Freedom Fund, friend
European Leadership Network (ELN), member
Prince Claus Fund, member of the board
Publeaks, member of the advisory board
Public Spaces, member of the board of advisors
Transatlantic High-Level Working Group on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression (TWG), member of the steering committee
Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, member of the board of advisors
World Economic Forum (WEF), co-chair of the Global Future Council on Agile Governance
CEPS Task Force on Software Vulnerability Disclosure in Europe, chair (until 2018)
Young Global Leader, Class of 2014[15]
European Leadership Network (ELN), Senior Network member[33]
Schaake is also a member of the board of advisors at the EU-funded research project 'Media, Conflict and Democratisation'. In September 2013, Schaake joined the steering committee of the "Transatlantic Dialogues on Security and Freedom in the Digital Age" project of the New America Foundation. Earlier she was a commissioner at the Global Commission on Internet Governance and a member of the board of directors at the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. All additional positions are unpaid.
Marietje Schaake
International Director of Policy, Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center
Biography
Marietje Schaake is international director of policy at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Centre, policy fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and president of the CyberPeace Institute. Previously, she was as member of the European Parliament, where she led the alliance of liberals and democrats for Europe on the International Trade Committee and served as her party’s spokesperson for transatlantic and digital trade. She also founded the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe and was featured by Politico as one of the 28 most influential Europeans in 2017.
Schaake, Marietje THE TECH COUP Princeton Univ. (NonFiction None) $27.95 9, 24 ISBN: 9780691241173
An assessment of the current state of the technology sector, which has avoided accountability for decades--but there are signs of change.
Schaake is the international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, a former member of the European Parliament, and a columnist for the Financial Times. Consequently, her voice is significant, especially involving issues of technology and regulation. In her debut book, the author takes a deep dive into the ways in which tech behemoths have infiltrated governments, starting with service delivery and working up to critical roles in national security. Some governments have openly contracted tech companies to provide tools for surveillance and control. The size and wealth of these corporations make them extremely powerful, and many of them have mastered the art of burying opponents under waves of techno-babble. They claim that any regulation would stifle innovation, but Schaake sees that as self-serving, pointing out that there are other well-regulated industries that have positive innovation records. She believes that the legislation passed in Europe is a good start but also notes that regulations have to be supported by the will to implement them, which has been patchy at best. In the U.S., Schaake argues for the possibility of a bipartisan coalition that could put effective rules in place. The hard line that politicians are taking with TikTok may signal a change of attitude. The question is now about designing a framework that balances the competing interests, and Schaake puts forward some useful suggestions. The Declaration on the Future of the Internet offers a path for international cooperation, and while none of the relevant problems can be easily solved, the author demonstrates the importance of making sure democratic institutions are protected.
Both alarming and hopeful, and Schaake writes with hard-won experience and clear-minded intelligence.
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