About
Vilija Vainaite
Founder & Principal Consultant, Calibrant
Calibrant is founded and led by Vilija Vainaite. The practice helps organisations and individuals adopt AI safely and responsibly — combining Big4 consulting experience with hands-on AI-safety and governance work.
Vilija’s background blends crisis & security management, risk, and frontier AI. She holds an MSc in Crisis & Security Management from Leiden University, facilitates AGI Strategy cohorts for BlueDot Impact, and builds AI-governance tooling through Mappera.
The focus is measurable outcomes that hold up to scrutiny — from a board, a regulator, or the people affected by the systems.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Available for remote engagements globally; frequently based between Amsterdam and Vilnius.
Experience
BlueDot Impact
AI Safety Course Facilitator
2025 – Present · Remote
- Facilitating the AGI Strategy course for international technical and non-technical audiences.
- Guiding participants through incentive mapping, kill chains, and defence-in-depth.
- Helping stakeholders apply AGI-strategy concepts in their own domains.
Deloitte
Consultant — Business Resilience
2024 – 2026 · Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Drove AI adoption for crisis, trust, and reputation management across technical and strategic teams.
- Built a proof-of-concept automating enterprise-risk processes with AI/ML and LLMs.
- Designed business-continuity solutions (ISO 22301:2019, BCI GPG 7.0); supported NIS2 implementations.
PwC
Analyst — Quantitative Solutions
2022 – 2023 · Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Delivered secure data-automation solutions for compliance projects.
- Built automated analysis pipelines (Python, SQL, Power BI) for governance reporting.
- Translated complex risk data for strategic decision-making.
Education
International Security & Intelligence Programme
Cambridge Security Initiative
Full-ride Sir Richard Dearlove Scholarship; deepfakes & societal resilience.
MSc Crisis & Security Management
Leiden University
AI & cybersecurity governance; Academic Excellence Programme; GPA 3.99/4.0.
AI Programming with Python Nanodegree
Udacity
Future Self Scholar (AWS award, 2023); ML & AI programming foundations.
BSc International Business Administration
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Graduated Cum Laude.
Certifications
Technical AI Safety
BlueDot Impact
AGI Strategy
BlueDot Impact
Future of AI
BlueDot Impact
AI Safety, Ethics & Society (AISES)
Center for AI Safety
Strategic Risk Management in the Age of AI
University of Cambridge Online
Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
ISC²
CBCI (with Merit)
Business Continuity Institute
Certified Disaster Recovery Manager
PECB
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