Seow-Chien Chew
Senior Partner of Bain & Company, Director of Bain Global Board, Head of Asia Pacific Banking Practice

Seow-Chien is a Senior Partner at Bain & Company and a member of Bain’s Global Board of Directors. She has worked across Bain’s London, Boston and Shanghai offices, and is now based in Singapore, where she leads Bain’s Asia-Pacific Banking Practice. Seow-Chien advises clients on strategy, business transformation enabled by AI and technology, operating model design and capability building to help organizations navigate change.

Seow-Chien is on the Advisory Board of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. She serves on Singapore’s Future Economy Advisory Panel, a senior advisory body that provides insights and advice to the Singapore Government on the country’s economic growth and transformation. Seow-Chien is Board member of HTX (Home Team Science and Technology Agency), a Singapore government agency focused on developing advanced technologies to strengthen homeland security.

Seow-Chien founded Bain Southeast Asia’s Social Impact practice, providing pro-bono consulting support to non-profit organizations. She is a founding member of the Asia Pacific chapter of Stratos, a global network of senior women leaders in Financial Services.

A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Seow-Chien received her MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, where she earned her M.Phil. in Finance (Distinction) and B.A./M.A. in Economics (Hons).