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  2. Margot Torres
  2. Margot Torres

Margot Torres

Margot Torres
Managing Director
McDonald's Philippines

Margot Torres is the Managing Director of McDonald’s Philippines, the largest market in Asia Business Unit and 10th largest market in McDonald's world. She also serves on the Board of Directors of RMHC Philippines.

Her McDonald’s career began in Marketing in 2003 and became Managing Director in 2018. Her leadership is marked by being a champion of creative excellence, digital transformation, and sustainability.

Outside McDonald’s, she is a sought out thought leader. She has received recognition from the country’s top institutions -- Agora Award for Marketing from Philippine Marketing Association, 1st CMO of the Year Award from Tambuli, Campaign Asia’s Women Leading Change Award and CEO Excel Awards for Communication from the International Association for Business Communicators (IABC).

She has also served on several distinguished juries, including:

  • Jury President for Corporate Purpose, APAC Tambuli Awards (May 2022)
  • Head of Creative Effectiveness Jury, Kidlat Awards (2021)
  • Over-All Executive Jury Member Tambuli Awards, Manila (June 2018, 2019, 2021)
  • Jury Chairman, Festival of Media Asia, Singapore (March 2017)
  • Jury Member, Festival of Media Global, Rome (May 2016)
  • Jury Member, Festival of Media Asia, Singapore (Mar 2016)
  • July Member, Spikes Asia, Singapore, Creative Effectiveness Category (Sept 2015)
  • Judge, Young Spikes (Sept 2015)
  • Judge, Campaigns Asia of the Year Awards - Southeast Asia Category (2014)
  • Judge, Asian Marketing Effectiveness, Shanghai (2013)
  • Member, APAC Effies Committee (since 2017).

In 2025, she was honored to serve as a jury member at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

She served two terms as President of the Philippine Association of National Advertisers (PANA) and Digital Marketing Association (DMAP).

During the pandemic, she led the private sector communications for the public-private partnership initiatives in managing the country’s COVID-19 crisis and vaccination roll-out.

Currently, she sits on the board of Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) as well as MMA Global APAC.

Margot is also a member of NextGen Organization of Women Corporate Directors and Filipina CEO Circle.