Keynote 1: Quirine Eijkman

Title: Recruitment Algorithms: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights

Speaker: Quirine Eijkman is the Deputy President of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights and Chair of the Research group Access2Justice at the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Dutch Legal Aid Board and Privacy First, an independent foundation with the aim to preserve and promote the right to privacy. Eijkman was also the President of the Dutch Section of the International Commission of Jurists (NJCM). Previously, she was the head of the Political Advocacy department and created an advocacy program on Communications Surveillance for Amnesty International-Netherlands. Eijkman received a Ph.D from the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, Law faculty at Utrecht University. She has also received a Master of Law: International Public Law and Criminal Law from Free University Amsterdam.

Resources mentioned in the keynote:

• Report (“When computers review your CV, who reviews the computers? – Algorithms and discrimination in recruitment and selection”)
• Report (“The Handbook on Non-Discriminatory Algorithms”)