International Director of Policy, Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center
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.
With the EU’s High Representative as our honoured guest, the panel will explore the birth of a geopolitical Europe and the new dimensions of European power with a focus on the tech, economic, and security terrains
Join us on this journey to a more therapeutic approach to international relations. The mini-series brings you five episodes with guests including today’s Marietje Schaake, Thomas Wright, and Anne Marie Slaughter
The EU is often described as a “regulatory superpower” benefitting from the so-called “Brussels effect.” But is the bloc also able to set its own rules and standards when it comes to new technologies?
Despite its absence from the agenda of recent high-level EU-China meetings, cybersecurity and digital rights deserve attention at the highest level.
We can begin to strengthen democracy through more transparency and accountability in the digital realm
ECFR Council member Marietje Schaake explains how greater online transparency is key to defending democracy and outlines three initiatives that should help reinvigorate democracy in the US
The fact that tech companies are willing to make sudden decisions with a huge impact on society is a great reminder of how much these platforms are part of our lives
Marietje Schaake comments on the regulatory battle between Canberra and Facebook, and on the great power that big tech has in our societies
We really see how well-functioning companies from the perspective of profitability can be at increasing odds with safeguarding the rule of law and democracy
ECFR Board member and tech expert Marietje Schaake on limiting the power of big tech companies to disrupt societies