Cristina Pombo

Cristina is a strategist and firm believer in innovation and creativity as key tools for social development. She advises the IDB Manager and Division Chiefs on operational issues and digital transformation strategies in education, health, social protection, labor markets, gender, diversity, and migration. 

Earlier in her career at the IDB, she was the senior advisor for the Office of External Relations at the IDB, where her work focused on promoting the culture of innovation inside and outside the organization, connecting the development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean with innovative solutions involving the most creative minds in the world.

In her current capacity, she spearheads initiatives that leverage digital technologies to improve social services such as fAIr LAC, the first public-private alliance for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in the region, with a special focus on mitigating gender bias in the use of machine learning.  

She is a Colombian economist, with specializations in Digital Transformation in Governments from the Harvard Kennedy School and in Data Ethics from the University of Michigan.