World Creative Rankings: the top 100 most awarded executive creative directors
The World Creative Rankings is our annual study of the brands, agencies and people behind the world’s very best creative work. In this instalment, we reveal the world’s top executive creative directors for award wins.
Thim Wagner at Jung von Matt, which created the For Seasons campaign, made this year’s top 10
Each year, The Drum’s research team analyzes the data from all of the advertising industry’s major awards schemes to find out which companies created the most award-winning work in the previous calendar year. This year, that meant examining 1,768 campaigns from 1,295 clients working with 964 agencies, including 483 executive creative directors.
Below, you can see the ranked list of the world’s best-performing executive creative officers. We will also be celebrating this year’s standout performers, and their work, in a special series of editorial features collected on our World Creative Rankings hub.
The most-awarded executive creative directors of 2020
| Rank | Name | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oliver Handlos | Scholz & Friends |
| 1 | Robert Krause | Scholz & Friends |
| 3 | Bjorn Stahl | Ingo Stockholm |
| 4 | Pablo Dachefsky | Publicis Groupe |
| 5 | Adrian Botan | McCann Worldgroup |
| 6 | Yuya Furukawa | Dentsu Tokyo |
| 7 | Matt Murphy | 72andSunny |
| 8 | Pierre Lipton | McCann Worldgroup |
| 9 | Thim Wagner | Jung Von Matt |
| 10 | Ali Rez | Impact BBDO |
| 10 | Max Lederer | Jung Von Matt |
| 12 | Sam Luchini | Freelance (formerly FCB Chicago) |
| 12 | Kaoru Sugano | Dentsu Tokyo |
| 14 | Sue DeSilva | Digitas Boston |
| 15 | Ana Balarin | Mother London |
| 15 | Hermeti Balarin | Mother London |
| 17 | Nir Refuah | McCann New York |
| 17 | Alexander Kalchev | DDB Paris |
| 19 | Marco Munoz | Casanova//McCann |
| 19 | Josh Stein | McCann Canada |
| 21 | Andrea Siqueira | BETC Sao Paulo |
| 22 | Eldad Weinberger | Promotheus (formerly McCann Tel Aviv) |
| 22 | Nadav Pressman | McCann Tel Aviv |
| 22 | Sigal Abudy | McCann Tel Aviv |
| 25 | Jung A Kim | Innocean Worldwide |
| 26 | Shayne Millington | McCann Worldgroup |
| 26 | David Banta | TBWA\Chiat\Day (formerly McCann New York) |
| 28 | Marco Pupo | Atlantic New York (formerly McCann New York) |
| 29 | Marcelo Nogueira | AlmapBBDO |
| 29 | Keka Morelle | Wunderman Thompson (formerly AlmapBBDO) |
| 29 | Bruno Prosperi | AlmapBBDO |
| 29 | Andre Gola | AlmapBBDO |
| 29 | Ricardo Wolff | Innocean Berlin |
| 29 | Andre Toledo | David |
| 29 | Saulo Rocha | David |
| 36 | Michael Wilk | Serviceplan |
| 36 | James Bray | Arnold Worldwide |
| 38 | Rakesh Menon | FCB Interface |
| 38 | Till Eckel | MediaMonks (formerly Jung Von Matt) |
| 38 | Brigid Alkema | Clemenger BBDO |
| 41 | Thomas Knuewer | Kolle Rebbe |
| 42 | Frank Cartagena | The Community (formerly 360i) |
| 42 | Sam Shepherd | Leo Burnett (formerly 360i) |
| 42 | Kimmy Liu | Cheil China |
| 45 | Fred Saldanha | VMLY&R (formerly Arnold Worldwide) |
| 45 | Max Geraldo | President (formerly Arnold Worldwide) |
| 47 | Pablo Maldonado | Wunderman Thompson Dubai |
| 47 | Masanori Tagaya | Grey Japan |
| 49 | Pernil | AlmapBBDO |
| 50 | Hugo Veiga | AKQA Sao Paulo |
| 50 | Jeff Goodby | Goodby Silverstein & Partners |
| 50 | Diego Machado | AKQA Sao Paulo |
| 53 | Joel Rodriguez | Freelance (formerly McCann Worldgroup) |
| 53 | Pete Jones | McCann XBC |
| 53 | Kentaro Kimura | Hakuhodo Kettle |
| 53 | Neale Horrigan | Elvis |
| 57 | Justine Armour | Grey New York (formerly 72andSunny) |
| 58 | Riccardo Fregoso | Freelance (formerly McCann Worldgroup) |
| 59 | Fouad Abdel Malak | FP7 McCann |
| 59 | Daniel Sytsma | Dentsu Achtung! |
| 59 | Mervyn ten Dam | Dentsu Achtung! |
| 59 | Joe Abou Khaled | Impact BBDO |
| 63 | Dan Wright | Colenso BBDO |
| 63 | Sophie Schonburg | Africa Sao Paulo |
| 65 | Tim Gordon | Droga5 |
| 65 | Satoshi Chikayama | TBWA\Hakuhodo |
| 65 | Veit Moeller | Anomaly (formerly Antoni) |
| 65 | Nicholas Hulley | AMV BBDO |
| 65 | Nadja Lossgott | AMV BBDO |
| 70 | Glen Dickson | Che Proximity |
| 71 | Julien Chiapolini | McCann Worldgroup |
| 71 | Rich Silverstein | Goodby Silverstein & Partners |
| 71 | Tilman Gossner | Antoni |
| 71 | Marcell Francke | Antoni |
| 75 | Patricio Elfi | We Believers |
| 75 | Oliver Robinson | FP7 McCann |
| 75 | Simon Engstrom | Seligemig (formerly Hjaltelin Stahl) |
| 78 | Alex Bodman | Spotify in house |
| 78 | Morten Grubak | Vice/Virtue |
| 80 | Mathias Wikstrom | Doconomy (formerly RBK Communication) |
| 80 | Johan Pihl | Doconomy (formerly RBK Communication) |
| 80 | Carl Willoughby | TBWA\Hunt Lascaris |
| 83 | Georges Mohammed-Cherif | Buzzman |
| 83 | Wu Min-Lung | Wunderman Thompson Taiwan |
| 85 | Nellie Kim | lg2 |
| 85 | Chris Hirsch | lg2 |
| 87 | Yasuharu Sasaki | Dentsu Tokyo |
| 87 | Alex Mendes | The Walt Disney Company (formerly National Geographic Partners) |
| 89 | Sean Thomas | Jones Knowles Ritchie |
| 89 | Ben Tollett | Adam&EveDDB |
| 91 | Geoff Edwards | Gale Partners (formerly TBWA\Media Arts Lab) |
| 91 | Gabriele Caeti | DDB Group Italy |
| 93 | Gianfranco Arena | BBDO New York |
| 93 | Peter Kain | BBDO New York |
| 93 | Ilkay Gurpinar | TBWA\Istanbul |
| 93 | Stuart Radford | Superunion |
| 97 | David Fernandez Morales | Philipp und Keuntje |
| 97 | Piper Hickman | McCann Worldgroup (formerly 360i) |
| 97 | Michael Jansen | Wunderman Thompson Amsterdam (formerly Ogilvy Social.Lab) |
| 97 | Tolga Buyukdoganay | Ogilvy Social.Lab |
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