Marcel Kolaja | |
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 Kolaja in 2021 | |
| Quaestor of the European Parliament | |
| In office 20 January 2022 – 15 July 2024 Serving with See List | |
| Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 15 July 2024 | |
| Vice-President of the European Parliament | |
| In office 3 July 2019 – 18 January 2022 Serving with See List | |
| President | David Sassoli Roberta Metsola (Acting) |
| First vice chairman of the Czech Pirate Party | |
| In office 8 January 2022 – 13 January 2024 | |
| Co-chairman of the PPI | |
| In office 13 March 2011 – 30 November 2011 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 June 1980 Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) |
| Political party |  Czech Republic:Czech Pirate Party (2010–2024)  EU Party:European Pirate Party EU Parliament group:Greens/EFA |
| Alma mater | Masaryk University |
Marcel Kolaja (born 29 June 1980) is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a former Czech Pirate Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024 and Quaestor of the European Parliament from 2022 to 2024. He was a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
Kolaja was a member of the Czech Pirate Party from 2010 to 2024 and the Vice-President of the Czech Pirate Party from 2022 to 2024. From 2019 to 2022, he served as Vice-President of the European Parliament. He served as Quaestor of the Parliament from 2022 to 2024, being responsible for overseeing the administrative and financial matters of the institution. Kolaja graduated from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University.
Apart from being a Bureau member in the European Parliament, Kolaja was a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), and the Special Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus (PEGA), as well as in the delegations for relations with the United States (D-US) and with India (D-IN).
Topics related to the functioning of society in the digital age are his main focus. Marcel Kolaja stands for open technologies, freedom on the Internet, independence of media, transparency, and a united Europe.[1]