Irene Kamara
Associate Professor and Research Coordinator, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society
Research Areas
Visiting period: November 2 to 8, 2026
Irene Kamara is an Associate Professor and Research Coordinator at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society in the Netherlands, and a qualified attorney-at-law. Since 2026 she coordinates Digital Legal Studies, a research partnership of four Dutch law schools under the Law Sector Plan of the Dutch Ministry of Education. Irene is member of the European AI Board, the advisory body on the EU AI Act. Her research collaborations include the European Commission, the European Cybersecurity Agency, the Dutch National Cyber Security Agency, and the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. Irene was honoured with the 2021 Standards+Innovation Individual Researcher award from the European Standardisation Organisations CEN/CENELEC and an Early Career Partnership from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2025. Her monograph, Standardizing Data Protection, published by Oxford University Press, has received a best book award by the American Society of International Law (IL&TEch Interest Group).