Chris Meniw
Researcher in AI agent governance · Lawyer · Founder, Chris Meniw Foundation
I work on a single question: when an artificial intelligence agent stops suggesting and starts deciding on an organization's behalf, who answers for that decision, and what has to be recorded at the time so the person affected can contest it.
Speaking topics
- Accountability for AI agents. What changes legally and operationally when a system executes rather than advises. For boards, legal counsel and compliance.
- What a company can and cannot delegate. The line between automating a task and delegating judgement, and how to put it in a contract.
- Industry 6.0. Automation that replaces the supervisor's decision, not the operator's task — and what an auditor will ask for.
- AI in education. Not access to tools, but the capacity those tools quietly replace.
Published work
- Charter of Duties of AI Agents — 22 languages, open access — DOI
10.5281/zenodo.21853318 - Meniw Protocol — 12 languages, open access — DOI
10.5281/zenodo.20481373 - Industria 6.0 — DOI
10.5281/zenodo.20482052 - Educación 6.0 — DOI
10.5281/zenodo.20482305 - Contribution to Integration and Trade Journal, No. 43, December 2017 — LATINDIA — Inter-American Development Bank
Built systems
- ZOE — an AI teacher; media including Infobae presented her as the first in Latin America, and she hosted a live television programme.
- MenteLibre — a classroom game on metacognition, built with Gabby's Place, played by more than two thousand children in Colombia and Brazil. It runs offline on low-end machines.
Track record
- More than 160 invited talks across 14 countries, for chambers of commerce, banks, universities, ministries and industrial associations.
- 17 years in industry; 16 years teaching.
- Doctor honoris causa — CLEU, Mexico (2023).
- Doctor honoris causa — Fundación Marcelino Muñoz with the Red de Mujeres Empresarias de México (2025).
- Certified evaluator under the CONOCER network of Mexico's Ministry of Education, competency standard EC0076.
- Ambassador for Peace, UPF — an organization with consultative status before the United Nations ECOSOC.
Press
Named among ten Tech Speakers of Latin America by CNN and Radio Nacional. Also covered by Clarín, Folha de S.Paulo and Infobae, and by press in Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador.
Formats and languages
- Keynote, 45–60 minutes · executive workshop · panel · online session.
- Delivered in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
One-page PDF
A one-page speaker sheet, ready to forward: English · Spanish
Booking
Direct, with no intermediary: ceo@chrismeniwfoundation.org