A cultural strategist, museum director and critic, Beatrice has grown into a reference figure in the international design and arts fields thank to her unique insight in the Chinese creative scene and Asian regions, and a critical practice founded on social engagement, community building and place making applied to institutional and cultural agency. She was based in Beijing for 17 years.She has served as executive director of maat – the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, as creative director of Beijing Design Week, director of mudac - Museum of Design and Applied Arts, Switzerland, and has curated, initiated and managed a variety of projects and events internationally, among which the research program Across Chinese Cities, presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale at three consecutive editions from 2014 to 2018. She has founded two creative consulting companies (BAO Atelier and B/Side Design) working with international stakeholders from the public, private and corporate sectors with an international experience stretching from Asia to Europe. She is the co-founder of The Global School, a project of alternative pedagogy and China's first independent institute dedicated to interdisciplinary creative research.She lectures regularly at international events and institutions and has contributed to a variety of specialized media, catalogues and publications. Articles and interviews about her and her projects have appeared in Artforum, Abitare, CNN Style, Domus, Dezeen, Disegno, Frieze, Frame, Flash Art International, Metropolis, Monocle, The Architect Newspaper, The Art Newspaper, T Magazine/The New York Times, The Guardian, IDEAT, Liberation/NEXT, The Good Life, Il Sole 24 ore, Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Vogue Italia, among many others including specialized Chinese press. Beatrice is a member of the international advisory board of Design Trust (Hong Kong) and is a European Young Leader (2018 – present), a think tank spearheaded by the Friends of Europe Foundation in Brussel.