Portrait of Nicolás Rebolledo

Founder, Strategy and Creative Director, Public Design UNIT

Nicolás Rebolledo

  • 2025
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival
  • 2026
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Nicolás Rebolledo is a strategic service designer and educator based in London, with over 20 years of experience leading research and design-led innovation to transform services, people and organisations.
 

He is co-founder of Public Design UNIT, a strategic design and innovation studio that works with regulated companies, public institutions, and international organisations across Latin America, the US and Europe. He is also a Fellow of States of Change, a global collective advancing public innovation through learning and practice.
 

Nicolás is Senior Tutor in Service Design and Design Futures (Associate Professor) at the Royal College of Art, and Practice Fellow at  Imperial College Business School, where he co-founded Wicked Acceleration Labs.
 

Trained as an architect at the Catholic University of Chile, he holds an MSc from UCL and a PhD in Service Design from the RCA.