World Creative Rankings: the top 100 most awarded chief creative officers
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 chief creative officers for award wins.
Publicis Italy CCO Bruno Bertelli topped the rankings this year, in part for his James Bond work for Heineken
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 composed of 387 chief creative officers.
Below, you can see the ranked list of the world’s best-performing chief 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 chief creative officers of 2020
Rank | Name | Company |
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1 | Bruno Bertelli | Publicis Italy |
2 | Matthias Spaetgens | Scholz & Friends |
3 | Alexander Schill | Serviceplan Group |
4 | David Lubars | BBDO |
5 | Pancho Cassis | DAVID the Agency |
6 | Paul Chan | Cheil Hong Kong |
7 | Jorg Riommi | Publicis Groupe CEE |
8 | Greg Hahn | Mischief (formerly BBDO) |
9 | Eduardo Marques | Publicis Groupe Netherlands and Belgium |
10 | Frederic Levron | FCB Global |
11= | Sean Bryan | McCann North America |
11= | Tom Murphy | McCann North America |
13 | Brent Anderson | TBWA\Media Arts Lab |
14 | Liz Taylor | Leo Burnett (Formerly FCB Chicago) |
15 | Eric Silver | Formerly McCann Worldgroup |
16 | Guido Heffels | Heimat Berlin |
17 | Matthias Storath | Heimat Berlin |
18 | Remi Babinet | BETC Paris |
19 | Paul Shearer | BBDO MENA |
20 | Neil Heymann | Droga5 |
21 | Cristiana Boccassini | Publicis Italy |
22 | Margaret Johnson | Goodby Silverstein & Partners |
23= | Fabian Frese | Kolle Rebbe |
23= | John Boiler | 72andSunny |
25 | Kazoo Sato | TBWA\Hakuhodo |
26 | Glenn Cole | 72andSunny |
27 | Ian Mackenzie | FCB/Six |
28= | Jeff Hilts | Retired (formerly FCB Toronto) |
28= | Nancy Crimi-Lamanna | FCB Toronto |
30 | Alex Grieve | AMV BBDO |
31 | Till Diestel | BBDO Germany |
32 | Sergio Gordilho | Africa Sao Paulo |
33= | Icaro Doria | Hill Holiday (formerly Arnold Worldwide) |
33= | Atit Shah | Digitas North America |
33= | Scott Donaton | Hulu (formerly Digitas North America) |
33= | Pepe Marais | Joe Public United |
37 | Luiz Sanches | AlmapBBDO |
38= | Xolisa Dyeshana | Joe Public United |
38= | Rob Doubal | McCann London |
38= | Laurence Thomson | McCann London |
41 | Menno Kluin | 360i |
42 | Elias Weinstock | Casanova/McCann |
43 | Tim Hawkey | Area23 |
44 | Robin Fitzgerald | BBDO Atlanta |
45 | Dennis Luck | Jung von Matt Limmat |
46 | Terry Marcello | McCann New York |
47 | Gabriel Mattar | Innocean Worldwide Europe |
48= | Jeremy Craigen | The Craigen Partnership (formerly Innocean Worldwide) |
48= | Susan Credle | FCB Global |
50 | David Droga | Droga5 |
51 | Andreas Dahlqvist | Nord DDB |
52 | Robby Mathew | FCB Interface |
53= | Richard Brim | Adam&EveDDB |
53= | Ben Welsh | DDB Group Australia |
53= | Tara Ford | DDB Sydney |
56 | Peter Khoury | TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris |
57 | Sean McBride | Arnold Worldwide |
58 | Jacky Lung | Cheil China |
59= | Denise Rossetto | Broken Heart Love Affair(Formerly BBDO Toronto) |
59= | Todd Mackie | Broken Heart Love Affair(Formerly BBDO Toronto) |
61= | Fabien Teichner | interruption (formerly Serviceplan France) |
61= | Dimitri Guerassimov | VMLY&R Paris (formerly Serviceplan France) |
63= | Joe Sciarrotta | Ogilvy Worldwide |
63= | Aaron Starkman | Rethink |
65 | Erh Ray | BETC Havas |
66= | Sergio Leon | Sancho BBDO |
66= | Mario Lagos | Sancho BBDO |
66= | Levi Slavin | Colenso BBDO |
66= | Hugo Corredor | Sancho BBDO |
66= | Giovanni Martínez González | Sancho BBDO |
66= | Tosh Hall | Jones Knowles Ritchie |
72 | Daniel Perez | Serviceplan France |
73 | Nick Worthington | Colenso BBDO |
74= | Reed Collins | Ogilvy Asia |
74= | Dani Richa | BBDO Worldwide |
74= | Ant White | Howatson+White (formerly Che Proximity) |
74= | Steve Aldridge | Wunderman Thompson UK |
78= | Natalia Benincasa | Wunderman Thompson Argentina |
78= | Sebastian Tarazaga | Wunderman Thompson Latam |
78= | Daniel Minaker | Wunderman Thompson Latam |
78= | Owen Lee | FCB Inferno |
78= | Rajdeepak Das | Leo Burnett South Asia |
83 | Gustavo Lauria | We Believers |
84= | Carlos Moreno | Broken Heart Love Affair(Formerly Cossette) |
84= | Rafael Donato | DAVID the Agency |
86= | Mauricio Sarmiento | Leo Burnett Colombia |
86= | Matthias Harbeck | Serviceplan Germany |
86= | Faustin Claverie | TBWA\Paris |
86= | Benjamin Marchal | TBWA\Paris |
90= | Paul Reardon | TBWA\Melbourne |
90= | I-Fei Chang | Wunderman Thompson Taiwan |
92= | Sally-Ann Dale | Droga5 |
92= | Seung Eun Jang | overman |
92= | Cam Blackley | M&C Saatchi Australia |
92= | Walid Kanaan | TBWA\Raad |
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