CANNES, FRANCE – Four of the Jury Presidents for the upcoming Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2020 are hailing from Asian backgrounds, namely Design Army’s Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer Pum Lefebure, Dentsu Aegis Network’s Chief Creative Officer Ted Lim, Isobar’s Global Chief Creative Officer Ronald Ng and Ogilvy’s South & Southeast Asia Chief Creative Officer Sonal Dabral. They will be joining 28 other talented jury presidents from all over the world. Together, they combine a diverse wealth of creative expertise, skill and talent, from both clients and agencies, to benchmark and award global creative excellence and effectiveness to set the bar for the year ahead.
Among the global spread of elite industry experts, 53% of Presidents are also women for the first time (up from 33% in 2019) – ensuring global female talent is equally represented at the head of the juries The new Creative Business Transformation Lions will also be awarded in 2020, alongside the refreshed PR Lions.
Design Lions – Pum Lefebure, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Design Army, USA
Award-winning creative director and savvy business leader, Lefebure is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Design Army, leading global brand campaigns for clients including the Hong Kong Ballet, the Academy Awards, PepsiCo, Karl Lagerfeld, Adobe, and The Ritz-Carlton. The Thailand native was named one of Adweek’s Creative100, Graphic Design USA’s Top 50 People to Watch, and a Rising Star by the Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business. Pum has also been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The New York Times, and Fast Company.
Radio & Audio Lions – Ted Lim, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Brand Agencies, Dentsu Aegis Network, APAC
Lim has led on creative work that has won multiple Grands Prix Awards at Cannes Lions and in 2017 he stood as the Direct Jury President. Lim repositioned the work Dentsu Asia-Pacific produces as “Innovative Business Solutions” and he was selected by AdWeek as one of 2019’s 13 global creative leaders whose ideas are advancing advertising worldwide. His team at Dentsu has produced globally recognised work for global clients including: Coca-Cola, Sprite, Zespri, Prudential, Unilever, Adidas, Qantas, Uniqlo and Yamaha.
Creative Business Transformation Lions – Ronald Ng, Global Chief Creative Officer, Isobar, Global
Ronald Ng leads the creative charge across Isobar’s 85 offices to deliver world-class experience-led transformation, powered by creativity. Joining in 2018, Ronald steered Isobar to their most successful year at the 2019 Cannes Lions Festival – establishing Isobar’s strength in the ‘Creative Experience and Commerce’ space with a Creative eCommerce Gold Lion for KFC and Isobar China. Ng was previously Global CCO at Digitas where he helped transform their creative offering and won the 2017 Creative Data Grand Prix.
Direct Lions – Sonal Dabral, Chief Creative Officer, South & SE Asia & Vice Chairman, India, Ogilvy, South & SE Asia
Over his 30-year career, Dabral has led agencies to the top position in three different markets across Asia. At Ogilvy Mumbai, he helped drive it to become India’s Number 1 creative agency. He also led Ogilvy Singapore to become Number 1 in Asia, and the third most awarded office in the world at Cannes Lions 2007 – a first for an Asian agency. He has judged or chaired every major international and regional award show and has spoken at major festivals and events across the globe.
The Presidents will join their juries at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity where the winning work will be awarded and celebrated each evening from 22-26 June 2020.
- Further information about the juries can be found here.
Entries to the Lions Awards open on 16th January 2020. Further information on how to enter and details on how to attend the Festival can be found at https://www.canneslions.com
