Marietje Schaake

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marietje Schaake
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1978(1978-10-28)
Age	46
Birthplace	Leiden
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Libra

Marietje Schaake Biography

Marietje Schaake is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 28, 1978 in Leiden, Netherlands. Maria Renske “Marietje” Schaake (Dutch pronunciation [ma:’ric@’sxa:k@born in the month of Oct. 28 in 1978) is a Dutch politician who was a MEP of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. The politician is part of Democrats 66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.

Schaake is also an active member of the Board of Advisors at the EU-funded research project “Media Conflict and Democraticisation’. In September of 2013, Schaake joined the Steering Committee of the “Transatlantic Dialogues on Security and Freedom in the Digital Age” project of the New America Foundation. She was previously a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance and a member in the director’s board of The Flemish Dutch House deBuren. The additional positions are non-paid.

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. 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.

The Wall Street Journal called her “Europe’s most wired politician”, while CNN called her a “rising Dutch star” who makes an increasingly rare “passionate and public case for liberalism and globalization”. 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. According to Politico, Schaake is the “ultimate digital MEP” whose name has been floated as a potential candidate for the foreign ministry”. The magazine also called her a “lead MEP on cybersecurity”. In 2017 she was invited as a ‘civic leader’ to address the Obama Foundation summit. She publishes op-ed’s in the Financial Times, The Guardian and Bloomberg.

In March 2011 in March 2011, the European Parliament adopted Schaake’s report on the cultural dimensions of EU’s External Actions. Then came an adoption by Schaake of her document on the development of a Digital Freedom Strategy in EU Foreign Policy in December 2012, and the report she wrote about Freedom of the Press and Media in the World in June 2013. Additionally, in April 2014 the European Parliament agreed with Schaake’s changes to include net neutrality in European Telecommunications Law.

Marietje Schaake Net Worth

Marietje Schaake is one of the richest Politician from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marietje Schaake 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Prior to the political field, Schaake served as an independent advisor, including other people including her position as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and the head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C.. Other assignments included consulting with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and companies and cultural institutions. Schaake was a specialist in areas such as transatlantic relations integration, diversity and civil rights as well as Muslims within the West. In 2007, she was awarded the Barney Karbank Memorial Award 2007 for her leadership excellence on the human rights issue.

In the fall of 2008 Schaake had been nominated to run for European Parliament for the Dutch political party Democrats 66 (D66). The European Parliament elections of 2009, Schaake was elected when D66 gained three seats. At the 2014 elections she was elected for an additional term.

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 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). 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. She then pushed for stricter export controls for cybersurveillance technologies through her work on the dual-use legislation. Schaake also advanced stronger oversight over the trade in cultural goods from conflict areas.

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