Matthew Seet

Matthew Seet is the author of 4 books published/forthcoming by both legal and technology publishers, including the complete 3-book trilogy on the ISO 27001/27701/42001 trifecta published/forthcoming by Springer Nature (Apress), and The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law to be published by Globe Law and Business and distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Matthew is also the founder of LAIRisk (which stands for Legal AI Risk), a legal AI risk management edtech (education technology) company. LAIRisk's mission is to guide legal technologists and legal professionals in managing AI risks by applying the international soft law standards: ISO/IEC 27001 (information security), ISO/IEC 27701 (privacy), and ISO 42001 (AI governance).. It is registered in both Singapore and the European Union (Estonia) - both signatories of the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement presently in force.

Matthew obtained his Master’s in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on a Swiss Government Scholarship, and is certified as an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (IAPP), ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management Systems Lead Auditor, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor, ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Privacy Information Management Systems Lead Auditor and ISO 31000:2018 Lead Risk Manager.

Matthew was formerly an international law lecturer at the National University of Singapore where he taught law for 7 years. His human rights writings have been published in the Cambridge Law Journal, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Citizenship Studies and International Journal of Refugee Law, cited in the Financial Times, and awarded the 2017 Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia Prize for Young Scholars.

Matthew also recently served as the board secretary of Sandbox, managing all legal and compliance matters of this Switzerland-registered global community of over 1600 entrepreneurs and creators, and previously conducted research on human rights and data privacy at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees headquarters in Geneva for over a year, and represented Switzerland in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.