The 200 most-awarded executive creative directors in advertising in 2021

The World Creative Rankings, in partnership with Twitch, is the definitive guide to advertising’s most creative brands, agencies and people. Following yesterday’s reveal of the industry’s most-awarded chief creative officers, today it’s time to find out which executive creative directors lead the rankings. The Drum’s World Creative Rankings are an original, industry-spanning effort by our researchers to chart creative performance across the advertising world.By measuring how many industry awards a campaign has picked up for its client, agency and the people behind it, we can gain an accurate picture of the critical reception to creative work. Using that data, we’ve compiled a list of the most-awarded executive creative directors in the business.The world’s best executive creative directorsRank Name Agency 1 Simon Bagnasco Saatchi & Saatchi Australia 2 Bjorn Stahl Ingo Stockholm 3 Pablo Dachefsky WYSIWYG/Publicis 4= Andre Toledo David Madrid 4= Saulo Rocha David Madrid 6 Adrian Botan McCann Worldgroup 7 John Bleeden FCB Chicago 8 Pierre Lipton McCann New York 9 Daniel Fisher Ogilvy 10= Andy Wyeth BBDO Germany 10= Cinzia Crociani McCann New York 12 Kristine Holzhausen DDB Germany 13= Kevin Grady Lippincott 13= Avital Pinchevsky FCB Chicago 15= Stephanie Berman McCann Health 15= Tim Jones Grey Group 17= Ian Reichenthal Freelance 17= Ramiro Raposo The Community 19 Matias Menendez AKQA Sao Paulo 20 Samira Ansari FCB New York 21 Nicholas Hulley AMV BBDO 22 Elliot Langerman ZS 23 Bryan Gregg R/GA New York 24 Jason Campbell Translation LLC 25 Nadja Lossgott AMV BBDO 26 Ali Rez Impact BBDO 27 Michael Wilk Serviceplan Group 28 Bruno Bomediano TBWA\Chiat\Day NY 29 Mihnea Gheorghiu Publicis Italy 30 Gary Steele DDB New Zealand 31 Oliver Robinson FP7 McCann 32 Lorenz Langgartner Serviceplan Group 33 Fouad Abdel Malak FP7 McCann 34= Cedric Astrella McCann Paris 34= Sebastien Boutebel Saatchi&Saatchi 36 Matt Murphy 72andSunny 37 Paul Banham MullenLowe MENA 38 Franz Roppischer Serviceplan group 39 Joe Abou Khaled Impact BBDO 40 Alex Bodman Spotify in house 41= Pravin Sutar Leo Burnett Orchard 41= Aalap Desai Isobar 43= Toby Treyer-Evans Droga5 43= Laurie Howell Droga5 45= Gavin McLeod Che Proximity 45= Luca Pannese Small 45= Luca Lorenzini Small 48 Eric Baldwin Wieden + Kennedy Portland 49 Chapin Clark R/GA New York 50 Andrei Gubaidullin Voskhod 51= Jason Bagley Freelance 51= Colin Craig FCB/Six / Performance Art 51= Marc Sobier Verizon 54 Rakesh Menon FCB Interface 55 Fabio Costa Saatchi and Saatchi 56 Jaimes Zentil Cossette 57 Craig Mcintosh Cossette 58 Mark Elwood Leo Burnett London 59= Ricardo Casal Gut 59= Juan Javier Pena Plaza Gut 61= Grant McAloon Freelance 61= Jesse Suchmann Edelman 61= Wesley Hawes Innocean Worldwide 61= Russ Tucker TBWA \ Eleven PR 65= Lisa Smith Jones Knowles Ritchie 65= Jules Chalkley Ogilvy UK 67 James Bray Arnold Worldwide 68= Chris Polychronopoulos Uber 68= Jen Speirs Rothco 70= Ricardo Wolff Innocean Berlin 70= Andreas Dahlqvist Nord DDB 72= Jenny Glover Juniper Park\TBWA 72= Sam Shepherd Leo Burnett Chicago 74 Alexander Kalchev DDB Paris 75= Renato Zandona Freelance 75= Jan-Sievert Krause Philipp and Keuntje 77= Michael Plueckhahn BBDO Germany 77= Fabrice Delacourt Publicis Conseil 79 Valentin Villamil VSP 80= Jason Romeyko Serviceplan Group 80= Youri Guerassimov Marcel Worldwide 80= Gaetan Du Peloux Marcel Worldwide 83= Volkan Dalkilic Havas İstanbul 83= Susan Young BBDO New York 83= Daniela Vojta BBDO New York 83= Mandie van der Merwe M&C Saatchi 87= Jake Barrow VMLY&R Sydney & Melbourne 87= Graham Drew Grey Group 87= Ian Grais Rethink Communications 87= Andrea Siqueira FCB Chicago 87= Chris Staples Rethink Communications 87= Tom Wenborn Thinkerbell 93 Riccardo Fregoso Publicis Italy 94 Avish Gordhan M&C Saatchi 95= Kevin Mulroy Mischief 95= Johnny Budden AKQA 97= Oliver Handlos Scholz & Friends 97= Robert Krause Scholz & Friends 99= Ben Wolan DDB San Francisco 99= Rayyan Aoun Wunderman Thompson Riyadh 101= Brigid Alkema Clemenger BBDO 101= Akae Wang Tencent 103= Thomas Knuewer Kolle Rebbe 103= Fred Saldanha VMLY&R New York 103= Max Geraldo BBDO Canada 106 Daniel Lobaton Saatchi & Saatchi 107= Stu Mallarkey Special Group 107= Pallavi Chakravarti DDB Mudra 107= Pipe Ruiz Pineda Wunderman Thompson Bogota 107= Diego Rodriguez Ogilvy Mexico 111 Marcelo Vergara Publicis Conseil 112= Akhilesh Bagri Serviceplan Group 112= Marc Watson Promise Group 112= Tony Bradbourne Special Group 115 Johan Pihl Doconomy 116= Neale Horrigan Elvis 116= Lucas Peon The Gate London 116= Julian Schreiber Special Group 116= Tom Martin Special Group 116= Shelley Smoler Droga5 121= Joao Medeiros Havas Middle East 121= Tim Devine AKQA 121= Scott Bell Droga5 121= Faustin Claverie TBWA\Paris 121= Benjamin Marchal TBWA\Paris 126= Anindya Banerjee FCB Ulka 126= John Koay Ogilvy Hong Kong 126= Ruxandra Papuc McCann Worldgroup 126= Matthew Nisbet Ogilvy Hong Kong 130= Chris Rowson MullenLowe New York 130= Paul Marty Herezie 130= Etienne Renaux Herezie 130= Karim Kazan McCann Worldgroup 130= Grant Hunter Iris 135= Chow Kok Keong Freelance 135= Marco Giannelli (Pernil) AlmapBBDO 135= Andre Gola AlmapBBDO 138= Max Lederer Jung Von Matt 138= Thim Wagner Jung Von Matt 138= Zenobia Pithawalla Ogilvy 138= Mihir Chanchani Ogilvy 142= Kelli Miller And/Or Studio 142= Chris Hirsch lg2 142= Nellie Kim lg2 142= Laura Visco 72andSunny 142= Kelsey Horne Taxi 142= Carlo Cavallone 72andSunny 142= Michael Schachtner Freelance 142= Alexis Bronstorph TAXI 142= Gustavo Etchandy Innvented 142= Federico Cibils Bisto 152= Tim Vaccarino MullenLowe Boston 152= Shagun Seda Netflix 152= Lee Shihyen Freelance 152= Frank Cartagena The Community 152= Simona Suman MRM 152= Costin Bogdan Saatchi&Saatchi + The Geeks 152= Dave Weist MullenLowe Boston 159= Kiyoung Kim Innocean Worldwide 159= Alexey Fedorov BBDO Worldwide 161= Jonathan McMahon Special Group 161= Lisa Fedyszyn Special Group 161= Carl Willoughby TBWA\Hunt Lascaris 164= Darren Bailes VCCP 164= Maru Kopelowicz McCann New York 164= Ricardo Adolfo TBWA\Media Arts Lab North Asia 164= George Sugitomo Ogilvy Tokyo 164= Michael Jansen Freelance 164= Tolga Buyukdoganay Ogilvy Social.Lab 164= David Ponce de Leon Ogilvy Australia 171 Ricky Vior The Community 172= Joe Kantrowitz Momentum Worldwide 172= David Yankelewitz Public Display of Affection (PDA) 172= Daniel Barak R/GA New York 172= Aaron Mosher Public Display of Affection (PDA) 172= Ryan Crouchman lg2 172= Dan Wright Deloitte Digital 172= Ana Balarin Mother London 172= Micky Tudor The&Partnership 172= Hermeti Balarin Wieden + Kennedy Portland 181 Maciej Twardowski Ogilvy Warsaw 182= Grace Chu chief 182= Wen Louie McCann Hong Kong 182= Mariana O'Kelly Ogilvy Chicago 182= Colin Selikow DDB Chicago 186= Neville Shah Ogilvy Mumbai 186= Wei Fei Ogilvy Shanghai 186= Bianca Guimaraes Mischief 186= Anthony Chelvanathan Edelman 186= Ricardo Weitsman WMcCann 186= Yasuharu Sasaki Dentsu Tokyo 186= Yan Elliott The&Partnership 193= Marcin Sosinski McCann Poland 193= Manuel Borde VMLY&R Commerce 193= Kimmy Liu Cheil China 196= Michael Funk Aldi 196= Martin Norgaard Furze No Sleep / Goodvertising Agency / Bacon 196= Chanatthapol Tiensri TBWA\Thailand 196= Morten Grubak Virtue 196= Michael Sicam OgilvyOne 196= Jo Shoesmith Amazon Explore the best-performing campaigns, agencies and brands in this year’s World Creative Rankings.This article was updated 15 February 2022.

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