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      Christine Engstrom

      Christine Engstrom

      Director General

      Asian Development Bank

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      As Director General of Sectors Department 3 (SD3), Ms. Engstrom oversees the bank’s operations in finance, human and social development, and public sector governance.

      Ms. Engstrom was previously the Senior Director of ADB's financial sector sovereign operations for three years, and Director of ADB’s Private Sector Financial Institutions Division for approximately ten years. She also started the Women’s Finance Exchange (WFX) platform to support financial institutions’ outreach to women through digital solutions.

      Prior to ADB, Ms. Engstrom worked at Fannie Mae for five years, primarily in the capital markets group. She has also held positions at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C. in the South Asia group.

      Ms. Engstrom has an MBA from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in international affairs from the University of Virginia. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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      • 12:00–1:00pmTue 17 NovWorkshopWorkshop Room 2Open

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        Human and Machine: Building the Next Generation Regulatory Inventory for Trusted Agentic AI - Powered by RegGenome

        WorkshopWorkshop Room 2Open

        About this session

        How can AI agents interpret regulation reliably when people already struggle to keep pace with its volume and complexity? Trusted agentic AI requires authoritative regulatory information organised so that people and machines can understand and use it consistently.

        This is fundamentally a human-and-machine model. Machines can analyse regulation systematically and at scale, connecting findings to evidence. People contribute legal and institutional context, exercise judgment and remain accountable for consequential decisions. Neither should function in isolation: uncertainty and disagreement must be visible and escalated for human review.

        This workshop will explore the regulatory data foundations needed to support this partnership. Participants will consider how shared ways of classifying rules and defining regulatory concepts could enable agents to retrieve the correct provisions, validate interpretations and cite authoritative sources—while reducing duplication for public authorities and global banks.

        The discussion will examine different approaches to organising and governing regulatory information, including whether shared standards can enable interoperable systems without requiring a single global classification framework or central database. It will also consider how to preserve jurisdictional authority and institutional control.

        Participants will gain a clearer understanding of how to combine machine scale and consistency with human context, judgment and accountability.