DIGITAL FREEDOM IN A HYPER CONNECTED WORLD MARIETJE SCHAAKE 17 JUNE 2013 MODERATED BY MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN 11:30 – 13:00 THOrsTEN BENNER PARLIAMENT, DEMOCRATS 66 AUDITORIUM DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVErsITY GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE NADOR U. 9, 1051 • BUDAPEST RSVP PETYA KOLEVA BY 14 JUNE [email protected] DIGITAL FREEDOM & ITS LIMITS, BUDAPEST FORUM 17-21 JUNE 2013 • KEYNOTE ADDREss GLOBAL DEBATE & PUBLIC POLICY CHALLENGE GDPPC IS SUPPORTED BY GDPPC PARTNERS DIGITAL FREEDOM IN A HYPER CONNECTED WORLD Marietje Schaake 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 of International Trade (INTA) and 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 Iran, and the delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. In March 2011, the European Parliament adopted her report on the cultural dimensions of the EU’s external actions. She is currently the rapporteur for the first EU strategy on digital freedom in foreign policy. Marietje Schaake is a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of the Iran Human Rights MARIETJE SCHAAKE Documentation Center. She is also vice-chair of 17 JUNE 2013 the Supervisory Board of Free Press Unlimited, serves on the Board of Governors of the European Internet Foundation, on the Board of Directors of the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren and on the board of the Dutch section of the Internet Society. Moderator Thorsten Benner is director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. Since 2011, he has worked with the founding team of the School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University..