Cristina Pombo
Principal Advisor, Head of the Social Digital Cluster
Social Sector Department - IDB
Cristina is a strategist, Colombian Economist and firm believer in innovation and creativity as key tools for social development. She advises the Manager and Division Chiefs on operational issues and digital transformation strategies in education, health, social protection, labor markets, gender, diversity, and migration. In this capacity, she spearheads initiatives that leverage digital technologies to improve social services such as fAIr LAC, the first public-private alliance for a responsible use of artificial intelligence in the region, with a special focus on mitigating gender bias in the use of machine learning. And she is member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI. Expert in Digital Transformation in Governments from the Harvard Kennedy School and in Data Ethics from the University of Michigan