Cristina Martínez Pinto is a nonresident scholar at the Baker Institute Center for the U.S. and Mexico and the founder and CEO of the PIT Policy Lab. As a tech policy entrepreneur, she works to advance people-centered technological development and technology governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. She consults for UNESCO on the advancement of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI in the region and is part of an international team conducting a Digital Economy Country Assessment (DECA) in the Dominican Republic.

Martínez Pinto holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tec de Monterrey. She is an inaugural fellow of the Virginia Tech Institute for Leadership in Technology, a Responsible AI Fellow with the Stimson Center and Microsoft, and a GovTech LATAM Fellow with the Inter-American Development Bank. In 2023, she was recognized as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader of the Year by Women in AI North America and received the Equals in Tech Award from ITU, UN Women, and GSMA for the Equitable AI Guanajuato Use Case. She is also a member of UNESCO's Women4Ethical AI Expert Platform.