Marietje Schaake

Marietje Schaake
Member of the European Parliament
In office 2009 – present
Constituency	Netherlands
Personal details
Born	28 October 1978 (1978-10-28) (age 33) Leiden, Netherlands
Political party	Democrats 66
Residence	Amsterdam
Website	Official web site

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 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 Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.

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.

Political career

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

External links

• Personal Website

References

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

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Name	Schaake, Marietje
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Date of birth	October 28, 1978
Place of birth	Leiden, Netherlands
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