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.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 2020Rank 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 If you’d like to get your hands on the full World Creative Rankings, pre-order our PDF report now.

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