Ronke Jegede is an AI Governance Architect and Fractional Chief AI Officer, and the Founder of Cardinal AI Systems, a UK governance practice working on a single question: whether a regulated firm can show how a specific AI-assisted decision was actually made, months or years after it was made.
She has spent thirty years in governance and accountability work, eighteen of them as an accountable officer, including seventeen years as company secretary of a registered charity constituted as a company limited by guarantee, filing to both Companies House and the Charity Commission. She passed the ICSA qualifying examinations in 1994. She is also the author of four books on how organisations are seen, judged and held accountable in digital systems, a question that now drives her work in AI governance.
She holds an LLB and has completed AI governance training at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, training with BSI in ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 23894 and the EU AI Act, and leadership training at Harvard Business School. She has designed and deployed twelve live AI applications across care, compliance, logistics and commerce, each governed under an ISO 42001 aligned stack.
She has published two open access documents under DOIs: the Cardinal Decision Evidence Assessment, a method for testing whether an AI-assisted decision can be reconstructed, and her response to the DIFC Commissioner of Data Protection's Consultation Paper No. 3 of 2026. Her AI governance briefings are published through SovereignBrief.
She is based in London.
