Awards: Asia Pacific leaders appointed as Jury Members in this year’s Cannes Lions

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Cannes Lions has recently announced its jury line-up of creative leaders for this year’s International Festival of Creativity. The extensive list features great minds from agencies and brands all over the world — all of whom are respected for their award-winning campaigns and commitment to producing ground-breaking effective work.

Among the Cannes Lions Jury Members are leaders from the Asia Pacific region. Not only is this year’s jury list brimming with female jurors, because there’s a huge chunk of representation from the APAC region as well.

Aside from Jury Members, four APAC leaders have been named Jury Presidents. Here are the APAC Jury Presidents and their respective categories:

• Creative Data Lions: Maurice Riley, Chief Data Officer, Digitas, Australia & New Zealand
• Direct Lions: Reed Collins, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy APAC
• Innovation Lions: Claudia Cristovao, Head of Google Brand Studio, Google, APAC
• Radio & Audio Lions: Merlee Jayme, Global President, Dentsu Mcgarrybowen, Chairmom, Dentsu Jayme Syfu, Global

• Endy Fung, Partner, Deloitte Digital, China
• Sudeep Gohil, Partner, Customer, Brand and Marketing Advisory / Head of Brand Strategy, KPMG, Australia

• Kazuhiro Shimura, Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
• Herve Bullot, Director Marketplace Insights, Levi Strauss & Co, Asia, Middle East and Africa

• Adams Fan, Chief Creative Officer, F5 Shanghai, China
• Roger Dunn, General Manager, GroupM Commerce, Australia & New Zealand
• Hironori Iwasaki, Business Designer, Hakuhodo Fellow, Hakuhodo, Japan

• Jitender Dabas, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Operations Officer, McCann Worldgroup, India
• Christine Ng, CEO, BBH China and Publicis Worldwide Shanghai, China
• Jean-Paul Burge, Chairman & CEO, BBDO, Asia

• Alison Tilling, Chief Strategy Officer, VMLY&R, Australia & New Zealand

• Kimberly Bartkowski, Design Principal, IBM, APAC
• Marina Danjo, Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan

• Ronnie Wu, Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\China

• Santosh Padhi (Paddy), Chief Creative Officer & Founder, Taproot Dentsu, India

• Ashima Avasthi Chaudhuri, Head – Content, Zee Studios, India

• Tamon Fujimi, Director of Creative Development, MassiveMusic, APAC

• Hisashi Eto, Director, AOI, Japan
• Sara Wallace, Executive Producer, Smuggler, Europe & Asia

• Tara Ford, Chief Creative Officer, The Monkeys Sydney, Australia
• Morihiro Harano, Creative Director / Founder, Mori Inc., Japan

• Swati Bhattacharya, Chief Creative Officer, FCB, India

• Mayuko Kamo, Senior Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
• Prateek Bhardwaj, Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas, India

• Sarah-Leith Izzard, Regional Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy, Asia
• Paul Shearer, Chief Creative Officer, BBDO, EMEA

• Jennifer Fischer, Chief Innovation Officer, TBWA\RAAD, MENA

• Norikuni Takamiya, Co-Head of Tokyo / Director of Content & Design, I&CO, Japan
• Kent Boswell, National Director of Interactive, Traffik Group, Australia
• Seamus Higgins, VP Chief Creative Officer, R/GA, APAC

• Naho Manabe, Creative Director, Hakuhodo, Japan
• Fran Luckin, Chief Creative Officer, Grey Advertising, AMEA
• Veradis Vinyaratn, Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\Thailand 

• Wendy Chan, Executive Creative Director, McCann Health, China
• Carolyn Paul, EMEA Health Chair, Edelman, EMEA
• Parixit Bhattacharya, Managing Partner – Creative, TBWA\ India

• Emily Poon, President, Public Relations & Influence, Ogilvy, Asia 

• Alvin Lim, Founder, Creative Chairman, GPB Shanghai & Hong Kong
• Hervé Poupon, Creative Director, Serviceplan France, EMEA

• Ian Toombs, Executive Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy, China
• Akira Suzuki, Director, Head of Global Business Marketing, ByteDance K.K., Japan

• Kimberlee Wells, CEO, TBWA\Melbourne & Adelaide, Australia

• Sonal Dabral, Writer / Director / Creative Consultant, Tribha, India

Cannes Lions, a five-day International Festival of Creativity, is the largest gathering in the creative marketing community. The festival will run from 21-25 June 2021 for the global premier and will be fully digital.