REGIONAL DIRECTOR, IDEO SOUTHEAST ASIA

Bea Camacho

Bea is IDEO’s Regional Director for Southeast Asia. She supports leaders and teams on their journey of innovation and transformation to design impactful ways to create new value for organizations. She is a seasoned leader in guiding and building creative teams, and collaborating with partners across Southeast Asia to create impact that is culturally relevant and resonant. She has extensive experience designing human-centered strategies, new business ventures, brands and services, and building innovation capabilities. Her clients include Merck, IKEA, Ford, Marriott, Nike, Michelin, Mattel, the Asian Development Bank, the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation. and the Singapore Government.

Before IDEO, Bea was a design consultant in real estate development in the Philippines and was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, she worked on a variety of projects for major corporations in Southeast Asia in strategy, marketing, and operations transformation.

An artist at heart, Bea also creates video art, performance art and installations. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including the Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Musee d’Art Moderne in St. Etienne.

She received her AB summa cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and has a Master in Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.