Irma Mastenbroek
Mathematician decoding legalese for technical minds
About Me
Are you sure your AI is safe to deploy? Or are you just crossing your fingers until the audit? Implementing AI comes with severe risks. For your users, your clients, and your organization’s bottom line. My clients usually reach out when they hit a critical operational bottleneck: AI regulations and standards are written in legalese, but AI systems run on math. When legal teams hand down high-level compliance mandates based on frameworks like the EU AI Act, data science teams are left stranded. They are suddenly expected to solve massive, systemic challenges like "non-discrimination," "fairness," or "human rights protection" inside their code, without any technical guidance. This results in tensions between the legal and tech teams, who often do not speak the same language, and don't fully understand the rules of each other's worlds. That is where I step in. As a mathematician, computer scientist and AI policy specialist, I bridge this communication gap. Having served as a standards expert developing the official CEN/CENELEC harmonized standards for the EU AI Act (via JTC21), I have rare, inside training on exactly how these massive legal requirements are translated into technical reality.
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AI policy for HR
My Strengths
1) I helped develop the CEN/CENELEC (JTC21) harmonized standards for the EU AI Act, which means I have a deep understanding of the rationale behind those standards. 2) Mathematical Precision: I replace vague ethical jargon with concrete, mathematically formulated testing-pipelines that your developers can actually use. 3) Advanced Risk Detection: My digital rights background helps me spot hidden socio-technical biases and data gaps that "checkbox compliance" generally misses. 4) Up to date on the myriad of EU Tech Regulations, where they harmonize (GPSR and AI Act), and where they are in conflict with one another (GDPR and AI Act)
What You'll Gain
Audit Readiness: Walk away with concrete compliance documentation and relevant testing frameworks designed to survive regulatory scrutiny under the EU AI Act, as well as keep your product safe to use. A Peer-Level Sparring Partner: I provide an independent outsider perspective, a technical confidant who understands your specific architecture and can stress-test your strategy and point you to potential blind-spots Team Alignment: Eliminate the epistemic and social disconnect between your management, legal and development teams by involving an expert who understands business, math and legalese.
Topics I Cover
- Technical Auditing - Crafting company wide AI Policy - new wave of EU tech law including AI Act, GDPR, GPSR, PLD - Harmonized EU Standards for AI (CEN/CENELEC) - ISO standards - Fundamental Human Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) - Socio-Technical Risks outside of the legal scope, such as reputational damage - Cross-Team Alignment
What to Expect
Here is what B2B compliance leaders and policymakers say about working with me: Alessandro Polidoro legal officer at European Commission: "Irma is the rare kind of mathematician who can decode both algorithms and policy agendas, and explain them to a room full of people. Whether she’s tackling AI ethics or digital rights, she brings sharp logic, deep insight, and a generous dose of humanity. A brilliant professional, and someone you definitely want on your side when the equations get complicated." Roberta Barone, AI compliance lead at StepStone: "Irma helped us define the legal and mathematical aspects of non-discrimination in AI in the context of recruitment. We found great value in her robust knowledge of both the regulation and the technical aspects of the issue, and her fresh and always engaging perspectives. Plus, she’s fun to work with!"
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