Sophie Schmidt

Sophie Schmidt (born 1986 or 1987 She wrote her undergraduate thesis on the impact of Internet technology in the Muslim world. Schmidt holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University.

Career In 2013, Schmidt interned at SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. She subsequently worked in Dubai at the Afghan media company Moby Group, and held positions at Google-funded incubator Umbono and Xiaomi in Beijing. Schmidt also serves as a director of the Schmidt Family Foundation.

In January 2013, Schmidt accompanied her father on a visit to North Korea as part of a delegation led by former New Mexico Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson. Sophie documented her impressions in a widely cited blog post, describing highly controlled and staged interactions, including a visit to Kim Il Sung University's e-library, which she characterized as feeling artificial, comparing the unresponsive students to figurines. Her candid, detailed account of her time in the country garnered widespread media attention.

Rest of World In May 2020, Schmidt officially launched Rest of World, a nonprofit media publication covering technology stories outside western countries. In September 2020, Schmidt told The Wall Street Journal that she had already invested $6 million out of a family trust into the nonprofit and planned to spend "as much as $60 million over the next decade to sustain and expand the site and shine a light on technology's impact beyond developed Western countries."

Sophie is Eric and Wendy Schmidt's only surviving child. Her sister, Alison, died in 2017 after a long illness.

She is based in New York.