Speaker Profile
Marietje Schaake is an expert on technology, policy, and geopolitics with a public sector focus. A member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, she was influential in shaping Europe’s policies on technology, trade, and foreign affairs, including the implementation of 鈥渘et neutrality鈥� policies now in force. Now a Fellow at Stanford鈥檚 Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centered AI, she advanced several initiatives to promote digital freedoms, including stricter export controls for cybersurveillance technology, and new policies for e-commerce and cybersecurity.
Her book The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley provides a roadmap for governments to proactively prevent companies from harming citizens, and was described as 鈥渁larming and hopeful鈥�. Schaake writes a for the Financial Times on technology and governance and serves on the UN鈥檚 AI Advisory Body.
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