Marietje Schaake

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Marietje Schaake (Leiden, 28 October 1978) is a Dutch politician for the social liberal party Democrats 66. Since July 2009, she has served as a member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Committee of International Trade (INTA) and the Committee on Culture, Media and Education (CULT). She also sits on the Parliament's Delegation for relations with the United States and the Delegation for relations with Iran, and the delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. In March 2011 the European Parliament adopted Schaake's report on the cultural dimensions of the EU's external actions. Schaake is currently the rapporteur for the first EU strategy on digital freedom in foreign policy. Marietje Schaake is a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. She is also vice-chair of the Supervisory Board of Free Press Unlimited, and serves on the Board of Governors of the European Internet Foundation.

Education

Schaake grew up in Leiden. After High School at the Haags Montessori Lyceum in The Hague she left for the United States to study Liberal Arts at Wittenberg University in Ohio. She went on to study 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.^{[citation needed]}

Professional life

Schaake served as an independent advisor to the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and to the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, DC. Other assignments have included consulting the State Department of the Netherlands, as well as cultural institutes and companies. Schaake specialized in topics like transatlantic relations, diversity, integration, civil rights and Muslims in the West. In the winter of 2007 she received the Barney Karbank Memorial Award 2007 for outstanding leadership on the issue of human rights. In 2011, The Wall Street Journal called Schaake "Europe's most wired politician" .^[1]

Political career

New in politics Schaake was elected in the European Parliamentary elections of June 2009.

External links

• Huffington Post - Stop Digital Arms Trade From Western Countries
• - Wall Street Journal - Europe's Most Wired Politician
• - Turkish Policy Quarterly - Zero Problems? Time for a New Policy Narrative
• Personal Website
• D66
• ALDE
• ECFR
• IHRDC
• Free Press Unlimited

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Dutch Wikipedia.