Marietje Schaake

Speaker Profile

Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party and has been a top figure shaping Europe’s policies on technology, trade, and foreign affairs. She writes a monthly column for the Financial Times on technology and governance and serves on the UN’s AI Advisory Body.

Books¹

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley Marietje Schaake
An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
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Ideas¹

The Tech Coup Over the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,” technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Read More