The people in the rooms where AI standards are written

AI governance software is only as good as its reading of the rules. Modulos experts hold seats in the European and international committees drafting those rules, and the company holds the certifications that prove it runs its own program.

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Seats in the committees writing the AI standards

European standards: CEN-CENELEC JTC 21
International standards: The Swiss mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
Conformity assessment: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/JWG 6
Experts: Kevin Schawinski and Andrea Basso

Contributions

Each item has a date and a link to the body that confirms it.

2024: ISO/IEC 42001 product conformity certificationThe Modulos AI Governance Platform holds the first product conformity certification for an AI governance platform against ISO/IEC 42001:2023, issued by the accredited body CertX (certificate 213-001/24, first issued under the CertX-AI V1.0 scheme).The ISO/IEC 42001 page
2024: Member of the NIST AI Safety Institute ConsortiumModulos is a member of the AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), now under the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).Participation does not imply NIST evaluation or endorsement of Modulos products.nist.gov/aisi
Since 2024: EU AI Pact signatoryModulos is a signatory of the EU AI Pact, the European Commission's voluntary pledge to apply AI Act principles ahead of full applicability: an AI governance strategy, high-risk system mapping, and AI literacy across staff.Public AI Pact signatory list
2023–2025: Spain's AI regulatory sandboxA Modulos team member served as an External Expert Advisor to Sandbox IA, Spain's pilot of the first EU AI Act regulatory sandbox, which concluded with the 16 AESIA compliance guides published in December 2025.AESIA's sandbox guidelines
2024–2025: GPAI Code of PracticeModulos team members contributed to the drafting process of the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice through its working groups.The Commission's Code of Practice page

The experts and their seats

Andrea Basso

Chairman of the Advisory Board

SNV / SC 42Member of SNV committee INB/NK 149, Information technology, and its subcommittee UK 42, Artificial intelligence: the Swiss mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
JTC 21Expert in CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 Working Group 3, Engineering aspects, and Working Group 4, Foundational and societal aspects
JWG 6Member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/JWG 6, the joint working group with ISO/CASCO on conformity assessment of AI management systems
IEEE 7003Contributor to IEEE 7003, the IEEE standard for algorithmic bias considerations

Kevin Schawinski

Co-Founder and CEO

SNV / SC 42Member of SNV committee INB/NK 149, Information technology, and its subcommittee UK 42, Artificial intelligence: the Swiss mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
JTC 21Expert in CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 Working Group 3, Engineering aspects, and Working Group 4, Foundational and societal aspects
JWG 6Member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/JWG 6, the joint working group with ISO/CASCO on conformity assessment of AI management systems

Team members hold ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer (PECB) and AIGP (IAPP) certifications.

The committees and initiatives

The governance graph shows the frameworks that these committees shape.

CEN-CENELEC JTC 21: The joint European committee drafting the harmonized standards that will give EU AI Act conformity its technical meaning. Working groups cover engineering aspects, foundational and societal aspects, and the standards requested by the European Commission. Kevin Schawinski and Andrea Basso serve as experts in Working Group 3, Engineering aspects, and Working Group 4, Foundational and societal aspects.
The EU AI Act page
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 and the Swiss mirror committee: SC 42 is the international committee behind ISO/IEC 42001 and the wider AI standards family. National mirror committees carry each country’s position into it. Kevin Schawinski and Andrea Basso are members of SNV committee INB/NK 149, Information technology, and its subcommittee UK 42, Artificial intelligence, the Swiss mirror committee to SC 42. Both also sit in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/JWG 6, the joint working group with ISO/CASCO on conformity assessment of AI management systems: the group shaping how ISO/IEC 42001 certification itself is audited.
NIST AISIC and CAISI: Modulos is a member of the AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), now under the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI). Participation does not imply NIST evaluation or endorsement of Modulos products.
The EU AI Pact and the GPAI Code of Practice: Modulos is a signatory of the EU AI Pact, the Commission's voluntary pledge to apply AI Act principles ahead of full applicability, and team members contributed to the drafting process of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice through its working groups.

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The compliance guide covers the global regulatory picture, and the standards pages go deeper on the frameworks these committees produce.Read the ISO/IEC 42001 page Read the NIST AI RMF page