21 Facts About Marietje Schaake

Marietje Schaake is a member of Democrats 66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.

Marietje Schaake was selected as one of the "Politico 28" in 2017.

Marietje Schaake publishes op-eds in the Financial Times, The Guardian and Bloomberg.

Marietje Schaake writes a column for the Financial Times and the Dutch NRC newspaper's economic section twice a month.

Marietje Schaake was raised in Leiden and attended the Haags Montessori Lyceum in The Hague.

Marietje Schaake then left for the United States to study liberal arts at Wittenberg University in Ohio.

Marietje Schaake then studied sociology, American studies and new media at the University of Amsterdam.

Marietje Schaake specialized in issues such as transatlantic relations, diversity, integration, civil rights and Muslims in the West.

Marietje Schaake was the spokesperson for the ALDE Group on the Canada-EU Trade Agreement Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Marietje Schaake then pushed for stricter export controls for cybersurveillance technologies through her work on the dual-use legislation.

Marietje Schaake additionally served on the committee on Foreign Affairs, where she focused on strengthening Europe as a global player.

Marietje Schaake worked on the EU's neighbourhood policy, notably Turkey, Iran and North Africa and the broader Middle East.

Marietje Schaake 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.

Marietje Schaake pushed for completing Europe's Digital Single Market and copyright reform.

Marietje Schaake established the Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe.

In 2017, Marietje Schaake was appointed to the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, 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, Marietje Schaake announced that she would not seek a third term and would not participate in the 2019 European elections.

On 25 September 2020, Marietje Schaake was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook.

Marietje Schaake was a candidate to become United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's first-ever Envoy on Technology in 2021; instead, the role went to Chilean diplomat Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond.

Marietje Schaake is a member of the board of advisors at the EU-funded research project 'Media, Conflict and Democratisation'.

In September 2013, Marietje Schaake joined the steering committee of the "Transatlantic Dialogues on Security and Freedom in the Digital Age" project of the New America Foundation.