Iris Devriese

Iris Devriese is a Senior Client Manager at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, servicing specialty reinsurance products for artificial intelligence risks, cyber risks and equipment breakdown to the non-standard market, including E&S Carriers, Programs and Public Entity Pooling.

Iris Devriese started working for the Munich Re Group seven years ago, joining the headquarters in Munich, Germany, as a Management Group Trainee. After a variety of different positions within the company she moved to San Francisco in 2022, where she operated as the AI Liability Lead of Munich Re’s Insure AI team. During her tenure, she researched and underwrote a a variety of insurance products protecting against the risk from AI errors. She contributed to a range of insurance solutions, from insurance-backed performance guarantees for AI vendors, to own damage insurance for corporations worried about AI implementation, to insurance covering AI liabilities such as discrimination from biased models or IP infringement from generative AI.

Iris is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where she earned a Master’s in Economic Sociology. She is also a European Lawyer with three JD-equivalent national law degrees from Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Humboldt University of Berlin and King’s College London.