Marcel Kolaja is a Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the same institution. He is a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and a substitute in the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) where he worked on the Parliament’s INI reports on the Digital Services Act. He has been a member of the Czech Pirate Party since 2010 and held several positions such as Vice-President of the Czech Pirate Party and co-chair of Pirate Parties International. He has a diploma from the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno.