Jens Meijen is a doctoral researcher at the University of Leuven and a consultant in AI governance, risk, and compliance. He is a founder and managing partner at Umaniq, where he advises clients on the AI Act, and at Ulysses AI, where he focuses on responsible AI prototyping. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University where he worked on AI and venture capital, a Europaeum Scholar in the University of Oxford’s Europaeum network, a Global Policy Fellow at the Institute for Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro, and an Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader in Morocco. Next to his academic and consulting career, he has worked as a journalist and author for the past decade, publishing several books.
