As President of Global Client and Agency Solutions at Google, Karen Sauder leads a diverse organization of sales, marketing, product and go to market specialists working with Google’s largest customers. This +50B business is at the center of the evolving digital landscape of rapid consumer change, new privacy expectations and the largest shift of digitization in a generation. She also oversees Google’s expanding presence in the Midwest as site leader for Chicago engaging in community development, policy leadership and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism form the University of Missouri with continuing executive education at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University. Karen currently lives near Chicago, IL with her husband and two sons. In her spare time she enjoys tennis, golf and fly fishing.

With two and a half decades of experience in creativity, marketing, sustainability, technology and brand innovation, Jose Gorbea, aka ‘Pepe’, is a passionate leader, well-established speaker, marketing professor and expert in revitalizing brands through purpose, consumer co-creation and sustainability.

Pepe has proven that consumer centric campaigns deliver outstanding results. From iconic confectionery brands to smaller farming communities in the Italian mountains, Pepe’s strategic counsel has been the foundation for branding success all over the world. For him, bringing to life the voice of the consumer and their communities through the power of co-creation has helped him enable his clients to produce ‘Better Marketing’ from the likes of Hershey’s #HerShe and Nescafe’s ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ to Dettol’s ‘Covid Warriors’ and Smirnoff’s ‘Love Wins’ just to name a few.

Pepe’s transition from FMCG into Tech has sparked a marketing evolution, proving that through physical experiences and technology, brands can accelerate ESG commitments, celebrate diversity, drive supply chain transparency while reducing packaging waste & carbon footprint.

Most recently, Pepe has created consumer-centric frameworks for brands that want to drive positive sustainable behavior change via personalization and sustainability.

Pepe grew up in the suburbs of Mexico City, led the marketing agenda of multiple brands at Bimbo, Kraft Foods, Nestle and Mondelez across the globe and is a former alumnus of Google’s Marketing Academy. He holds a post-graduate from Stanford’s School of Business on ‘Building Innovative Leaders’ and is a valued member of D&AD’s Impact Council. He recently was invited as a marketing professor at ESADE School of Business in (the 9^th top Marketing School in the world). He currently lives with his wife and 2 kids in Barcelona, where he continues his journey to reinvent marketing that creates a better future for all.

Isa Kurata embarked on the ACT (Advertising Community Together) adventure in 2001 in response to the 9.11 terrorists’ attacks to mobilize the advertising community while she was marketing director of Adforum.com. In 2007, she co-founded with her sister Sophie Guérinet the non-profit association ACT Responsible whose mission is to inspire, promote and unite the advertising industry around good practices of social responsibility and sustainable development. For 20 years, the association has presented its annual exhibition of the best social and environmental campaigns within the Cannes Lions, creating a unique meeting point for the international industry on these subjects. She participated in the development of responsible communication through many initiatives: “AdWiser” (2006) first french think tank on advertising and sustainable development, “1 minute of Responsibility” (2007) program developed for Euronews devoted to advertising charity, “NG’Ad” (2008) the club of associative dircoms who love publicity, “Good Report” (2014) the ranking of the best international campaigns in favor of major causes. Today an expert in the field, Isa is involved with the IAA Global to launch its “Sustainability Council” in close collaboration with the United Nations. Her motto: the role, responsibility and commitment of the ad industry to citizens to help build a fairer and more sustainable world. She pursues her mission with all the energy necessary for such an ambition.

Josh Lockwood joined the American Red Cross in May 2012 as the CEO for the American Red Cross in the Greater New York Region.  Currently, he serves as the new Vice President for Climate Change & Sustainability with a focus on raising funds, an effort to build awareness and attract resources to support critical new climate-related investments at the American Red Cross.  Previously, Josh had served as the Vice President of the Northeast Division, overseeing Humanitarian Services for the Northeastern United States.

Lockwood’s tenure at the Red Cross included operations following numerous high-profile disasters in Greater NY – Superstorm Sandy, the East Harlem Building Explosion, the East Village Building Explosion, the Chelsea Bombing, and the Valhalla Commuter Train Crash – as well as thousands of smaller-scale incidents – mostly home fires. Nationally, Lockwood deployed to serve in leadership roles following the mass shootings in Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas as well as after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina.

Lockwood also serves as a national spokesperson for the American Red Cross and has appeared on programs/outlets including Good Morning America, the TODAY Show, CBS News, ABC News, Anderson Cooper Live, CBS New York, WNBC, WABC, FOX5, WPIX, WNYC and NY1.

Prior to the Red Cross, Lockwood served a six-year tenure as CEO at Habitat for Humanity – NYC, where the nonprofit adopted a private sector financing model to exponentially increase home production; this included construction of the largest and greenest Habitat for Humanity multifamily buildings ever constructed in North America. In Lockwood’s tenure, Habitat-NYC was recognized by the New York Times Non‐Profit Excellence Awards, the US Green Building Council, Avenue Magazine, the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, and Affordable Housing Finance Magazine. Lockwood was also named by Crain’s New York as one of its “40 Under 40” rising stars.

Prior to joining Habitat-NYC, Lockwood was a principal at the management consulting firm of HR&A Advisors in New York City. He has received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University, where he was twice elected to lead the student body’s philanthropic initiatives.

With over 20 years of experience in the advertising and entertainment industry, Sergio leads the overall vision and strategy of production at Publicis Groupe, nurturing its talent and skillsets, to bring the most progressive solutions to clients. He works the Groupe’s production teams to further drive the world-class connected suite of tools, capabilities and technology-enabled platforms to provide creative, effective and efficient solutions for clients.

Lopez-Ferrero has been at the vanguard of building new models that bring together creativity, data and content,  leading to continued growth as well as the unification of production operations and studios. This has proven to be a driver of creative success, organic expansion of production and content creation capabilities across the agency networks at scale.

A true citizen of the world, Sergio has spent his career working across Fortune 500 multinational business at leading global network agencies – based at regional and global HQ’s including London, New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Chicago, Dubai, Moscow, Dusseldorf, Paris and Madrid. – as well as numerous other international cities.

He has been a trailblazer in the way brands connect with the consumer collecting over 400 awards (including 78 Cannes Lions) along the way. A sought after thought leader in the field of creative production, he frequently shares his expertise with industry association and at industry events. He is published regularly in global industry and business media, advocating the re-imagination of the production model.

John is a well known marketing leader, most recently serving as Chief Executive Officer of OMD USA. In his 5 years running the 1,800 person
network, he integrated the agency’s brand, data & analytics and performance media practices in a combined-services model, while overseeing
the agency’s transformation into a modern day, precision-based, agile and nimble media powerhouse. He also reignited growth, overseeing a
string of new business wins, including Clorox, The Home Depot, Georgia Pacific, SNAP and LegalZoom, among others. John also served as a
contributing member of the Worldwide Executive Committee, and he helped propel OMD Worldwide to being crowned “Global Media Agency of
the Year” consecutively in 2019 and 2020 by AdWeek, and Cannes Lion “Global Media Network of the Year” this past June.

John joined OMD in 2017 after 25 years with BBDO, where he served as President and CEO of the New York creative Agency for 13 years. Under
John’s leadership, BBDO New York more than doubled revenues, expanded its client base to include categories like BtoB, retail, healthcare and
more, and diversified its workforce. He also led the agency’s transformation into data, marketing science and communications planning. The
result: BBDO New York was named Agency of the Year more than 20 times by various media outlets.

Over the years, John has demonstrated that he is an energetic, positive and passionate leader with a proven ability to build strong client
relationships and deliver results. John’s notable accomplishments over the years also include his involvement with the “New York Miracle”
campaign, which helped lift spirits of New Yorkers in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

John has served as Chairman of the Board of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the “unifying voice for advertising,” and he remains active on the Board. More recently, John was elected to the Board of Directors for The Advertising Council.

John has been equally active outside business, lending his talents to other important causes. For 15 years, John served on the Board of Directors of the Police Athletic League of New York, and he served in
the role as President of the Board for 10 years working closely with the Commissioner’s Office of the NYPD and the District Attorney’s office to serve over 40,000 underprivileged children of New York City.
He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the American Red Cross of Greater New York, President of GlobalDignity.org and on the Board of the Woodstock Foundation in Woodstock, Vermont.

In recognition of his accomplishments, John was a recipient of a 2012 AdColor Award celebrating diversity champions in advertising, media, marketing and public relations. In 2003, he was inducted into the AAF Hall of Achievement, which honors people 40 years of age or under for their contributions to business. He has also been named to the Crain’s New York Business list of “40 under 40” as well as BtoB magazine’s “Who’s Who in BtoB.” In 2006, John was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. In 2016, the Police Athletic League recognized John as its Superstar of the Year, and the
AAF presented him with the Barton A. Cummings Gold Medal Award – its highest honor for service to the Federation and its membership.

John earned his BA at Dartmouth, for which he continues to serve as an active member of its Alumni Network and Friends of Dartmouth Ice Hockey program.

Born in Clermont-Ferrand (France) and graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris, Nicolas has spent 6 years at Saatchi&Saatchi Paris and 6 years at CLM/BBDO Paris, before joining Jean-Marie Dru in 1994 as managing director of BDDP (which is now TBWA\Paris).

After having founded his own creative hotshop (BDDP&Fils) within the TBWA group, Nicolas was appointed CEO of TBWA\France, 3rd largest group of communication in France from 2002 to 2013.

He then became Vice-President of TBWA\Europe, then Vice-President International of TBWA\Worldwide, in addition to his responsibility of TBWA\Corporate Chairman, based in Paris.

Nicolas is leading TBWA\Worldwide Environmental Sustainability task force called ‘Carbon Fighters’, and is representing TBWA at Omnicom Environmental Sustainability Committee.

Nicolas is a former President of AACC (French advertising association) and is currently co-chair of EACA (European Association of Communication Agencies) sustainability task force.

He is an active member of ESSEC transition Alumni environmental association and of Alumni for the Planet association.

Nicolas is a teacher at Sciences Po Paris and is currently Dean of Sciences Po Paris Executive Master communication.

He is also an author (His first book ‘L’idée qui tue’ (‘The Killer Idea’) has been published in French, English, Mandarin and Arabic), a blogger and a LinkedIn Influencer with more than 225 000 followers.

Sebastian Munden is the Executive Vice President & General Manager, Unilever UK & Ireland and joined Unilever in 1990 as a marketing trainee at Lever Brothers in the UK after completing his MA in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. After several brand management and customer team positions in Home and Personal Care, he was appointed category director for Laundry UK in 1997.

Sebastian then went on to hold various senior roles across the US and Europe before being appointed Vice President of the Laundry Category for Europe in 2008 and head of Global Marketing Operations in 2012.

Sebastian now leads the UK & Ireland business, a position he has held since 2017. Sebastian has pioneered new ways of working across Unilever to accelerate the agility of the business, helping to respond to the challenges of today’s competitive environment in an ever more connected world. He champions the sustainable packaging  agenda and the inclusion of more diverse young talent in the workforce, and into Unilever. He is married to Elisabeth and has two children.

Annie Smith is Head of Content – Insight & Advisory for LIONS, leading on advisory editorial initiatives, LIONS research and IP projects. Annie has been with LIONS for more than 7 years; she’s helped grow a variety of content products core to the company, including content programmes for Cannes Lions and Dubai Lynx, research projects including the annual State of Creativity Study and  large-scale editorial projects for clients such as LinkedIn, Deloitte Digital and Adobe.

Annie is currently leading on content development using LIONS own IP; she creates content pieces that explore topical subjects and key trends using LIONS signature awards data, new research and insight from LIONS’ extensive network of creative experts. She also conducts research to gather essential insight from the creative community which helps define the core themes that underpin all LIONS’ content projects. This work feeds into LIONS Advisory, The Work, Cannes Lions and LIONS Membership.

Annie has been with Ascential Ltd for ten years and holds a degree in Modern Languages from Durham University.

Mark Whelan is Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Havas UK.

Based in London’s Kings Cross, Havas UK is made up of 24 agencies, 1700 people, all under one roof.

Mark was the founder of Cake, the branded entertainment company, that was acquired by Havas in 2008.

Justin is a Copy Advice Executive at the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), and is currently a project manager on the ASA and CAP’s ‘Climate Change and the Environment’ project.

Caroline Holtum is a strategic communicator focused on tackling the climate crisis. She was the UK Government’s Communications Director for COP26. Before that, she was Communications Director at We Mean Business, a coalition focused on driving corporate climate action. Prior to that, she was Head of Content globally for The Guardian’s sustainable business section, which she helped launch in the UK and US.

Abi Moran is CEO of Folk Wunderman Thompson, a leading Irish marketing communications agency built around inspiring growth for some of Ireland’s most ambitious brands. With expertise and capabilities across all communication channels, Folk Wunderman Thompson enjoys working with Vodafone, Lidl, An Post, Bord Gáis Energy (Centrica), Irish Life, and Brennans.

As Vice President of IAPI (Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland) and co-chair of IAPI’s Sustainability Council, Abi drives work that prompts environmental and societal change.

Co-founder and co-chair of the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN), a leading global movement in human rights based advertising. CAN is a cross industry group of 150+ global brands, agencies and civil society members working to create a safe, inclusive and commercially viable information ecosystem for advertisers and society that supports quality journalism and content, diversity of media and scientific consensus.

Co-founder and Managing Director of Media Bounty, a certified B Corp, on a mission to be the leading independent ethical creative and media agency by 2023.

NED at the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit

Jo has worked in the advertising production industry since 2006, most recently as Head of Production for LS Productions, overseeing the production of some of the UK’s largest service projects. Jo founded AdGreen in 2014. Initial collaboration with BAFTA’s albert led her to create the AdGreen website and repository of resources (tested on her own shoots whilst a Production Manager). Jo also writes for industry press, sits on the APA council and works with the Advertising Association’s Ad Net Zero team. Jo heads up AdGreen, as Project Director, and is based at the Advertising Association.

Laura Sutphen is the Managing Director for Social Impact + Inclusion at Golin, where she leads a diverse team that creates strategies and solutions for brands to be equitable, sustainable and act with purpose. Laura works at the intersection of strategy, innovation, communications and social good to help companies break through with social impact storytelling. As an award-winning expert and thought leader in social purpose and sustainability, she’s worked with global brands and organizations to architect some of the biggest moments in culture. Highlights include naming the emergency contraceptive drug Plan B and bringing it to women around the globe; launching We Can Be Heroes, the largest cause marketing campaign in the history of Warner Bros./DC Entertainment that provided aid to the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa; the launch of Just Label It!, a national campaign that petitioned the FDA to label GMOs; and leading sustainability and social impact strategy for brands including Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Neutrogena, Lego, and Clif Bar.

In addition to her agency background, Laura led communications at Amazon where she focused on small business empowerment and customer trust.

She is a graduate of Syracuse University, holding a BS in critical theory and a double minor in speech communication and public relations from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. She is on the Board of The People’s Music School, which provides completely free music education to Chicago’s children, and she has been a Jivamukti yoga and meditation teacher for more than 20 years.

Emma Newman has served as a pioneer in the digital media space with 20 plus years’ experience in all marketing disciplines, digital communications, and business development. Emma joined PubMatic in 2014 as a Senior Director of International Marketing, was promoted to Vice President of International Marketing and later took on a commercial role as VP, UK. Emma was promoted to Chief Revenue Office, EMEA in August of 2019.  Prior to PubMatic, Emma spent 10 years at MSN in several marketing roles before transitioning to lead their business excellence function across EMEA. She then served as AOL’s Senior Director of UK Marketing later joining the team that launched the Huffington Post in EMEA.  She left AOL to join Clear Channel UK as their Marketing Director. In her current role as Chief Revenue Office, EMEA, strategy, change, and bringing people together continue to be the central theme in her career.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-newman-0491518/

Tim started his agency career at MG OMD as a graduate in 2006, starting out in Radio before making the transition to social media when many of the social networks were still in their infancy. He has been in agency and client-side roles and across media and creative disciplines. He is an active member of the IPA Climate Charter Council (part of Ad Net Zero) and has been working with Media Owners on a self-reported framework of carbon emissions, sustainability policies and goals. At MG OMD he has led a company-wide initiative with the Media Trust to help charities with their comms goals as part of the Garfield Weston #CommunicatingClimate programme, now in its second year.   

In 2019, filmmakers Sil van der Woerd and Jorik Dozy co-founded Studio Birthplace, a creative studio that focuses solely on ecological topics and a sustainable future for our planet. The studio’s work consists of campaign films, documentaries, music videos, promos and apps, and brought attention to environmental topics such as deforestation, overconsumption, the climate emergency, and the plastic soup. Recent project highlights include the Wear Wool Not Fossil Fuel campaign, for Woolmark and Wasteminster for Greenpeace which has collected many awards including a Cannes Lion, British Arrow and Creative Circle Golds.

Kieley Taylor is Global Head of Partnerships, Managing Partner for GroupM. She brings 15+ years of digitally centric experience to this role. On behalf of GroupM’s global clients she advocates for value, differentiation, technological collaboration, and premium opportunities. She also is a lead contributor to GroupM’s sustainability and Metaverse working groups. Previously, Taylor was the agency’s Global VP of Social, where she streamlined operations and disseminated thought leadership, training, best practices across social media platforms. Taylor evangelized an audience-first approach to integrated planning and buying with an emphasis on emerging opportunities. She is a member of Meta, LinkedIn, and Pinterest’s respective partner councils along with the 4A’s Sustainability Taskforce and WFA’s Metaverse working group. She is recognized as a thought leader commenting in business and trade publications, speaking on panels, a repeat awards juror, and frequently authors thought pieces that are shared amongst GroupM clients. Previously, Taylor was Partner, Paid Social Director for M80, where she worked with Nestle. She has also held leadership roles at Media Storm and Neo@Ogilvy.

Derek Moore is CEO and Co-Founder of B Corp Creative Studio Coffee & TV, who specialise in high-end visual effects, colour grading, design and animation. The studio collaborates on all forms of moving image, from advertising and music promos through to film & episodic TV. Since starting the studio in 2012, Derek has been responsible for its incredible evolution and success; from a 4 person start-up to a 100 person B Corp certified carbon-neutral group, with sister company Residence Pictures. Before setting up the business he was an award-winning VFX Artist for 25 years. Derek’s deep understanding of the visual effects industry from the perspective of both an artist and a business owner has informed his ability to assemble and lead creative teams of exceptional, like-minded people, who share his passion for the craft and a desire to learn and grow. This has enabled Derek to forge a world-class company with healthy profit margins that won the Best Place to Work in TV Award for the last 2 years running whilst maintaining leading standards of sustainability.

Ella Gancarz is a freelance Producer and EP. She’s been working in the TV, advertising and film industry for over 13 years, across 3 different countries. Throughout her career she’s always raised awareness, supported meaningful causes and collaborated with numerous international organisations such as Greenpeace and United Nations. Ella is a co-founder of a human rights organisation, The 88 Project.

Adam Booth is Managing Partner / Executive Producer at Park Village. He has a wealth of experience, having held senior positions across both production company and ad agency production departments. Having been a founding member of the management team at a successful production company, he then made the jump from Head of Production to Exec Producer at Engine, working on accounts such as RAF and Moneysupermarket. His experience spans film, commercials, documentary, online content & social production. With a passion for developing directors and his in-depth client & agency knowledge he brings an invaluable perspective to the Park Village team.

Fran is Strategy Partner at 20something. She is an award-winning planner with a decade of experience working at some of London’s best agencies including Saatchi and Saatchi, M&C Saatchi and Crispin Porter. She leads strategy across all 20s clients with a particular interest in youth brands and sustainability.

Kate joined ITV in 2019 the newly created role of Director of Client Strategy and Planning, with a remit to help ITV Commercial build broader and deeper relationships with advertisers. A creative strategist by background, most recently she was co-founder and CSO of Now Advertising. A highly respected and well known strategic leader with twenty years’ experience Kate has worked across sectors as diverse as automotive, retail, government and public sector, FMCG and financial services, and with clients including BT, Ocado, Public Health England and Moneysupermarket.com.

Imogen Fox heads up the commercial teams responsible for client relationships, marketing, strategy and content for the Guardian’s UK advertising business. Previously, Imogen was executive editor of Guardian Labs for six years, leading their award-winning branded content partnerships. She joined the commercial department in 2016, from the newsroom where she was head of fashion. In this role, Imogen drove the Guardian’s global reputation for intelligent fashion reporting, features and visuals.

Julie has been at The Guardian for six years and was recently appointed Director of Sustainability & Operational Transformation. Prior to joining the Guardian she spent several years working in strategy consulting. In her current role, Julie is responsible for leading major transformation projects across the Guardian, setting and delivering the company’s corporate sustainability targets, including the organisation’s goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Julie oversees measurement of the company’s emissions and works with teams across the business to identify actions that will reduce their environmental impact. In 2019, Julie led the company’s certification to become a B Corp, the Guardian are the first major media company to achieve the certification, which recognises businesses that pursue a social purpose alongside financial performance.

Sarah Jones is Director of Planning at Sky Media and leads our Communications Strategy, Partnership sales and Creative teams. Her focus is building holistic recommendations for clients that leverage the breadth of Sky’s capabilities to deliver better outcomes. She supports Sky’s sustainability strategy in the media space – leading the Sky Zero Footprint fund which enables brands to promote sustainable products and behaviours through the power of TV.

Sarah also chairs The News Alliance – a cross-industry network focused on championing the benefits of trusted News journalism to advertisers.

Prior to moving to Sky in 2019 she spent 20+ years in media in agency strategy and planning roles.

Jessica Long has nearly 20 years’ experience in research, insight and consultancy spanning three sectors.  She is Head of ESG/Sustainability Consulting for Ipsos’ consulting arm, Strategy3, which supports industry with their sustainability challenges.  Jess has had the privilege of speaking at COP26 blue zone in Glasgow to showcase Ipsos’ latest insights.  She has completed Cambridge’s Institute of Sustainability Leadership Course in Business Sustainability Management and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Gerald’s team delivers trends analysis for Google’s UK clients, combining Google data analysis and commissioned third party research on topics including consumer trends, macroeconomics and the impact of technology and the internet on marketing and consumer decision-making. He co-authored  Decoding Decisions, which explored the “messy middle” of purchase decision-making. He is a member of the Effectiveness Advisory Board for the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.

Gerald is passionate about helping businesses lead on environmental and social issues, and chairs Google’s internal UK customer sustainability working group.

She is responsible for leading McCann Worldgroups sustainability strategy through decarbonizing McCann Worldgroups business in line with their net zero goal and embedding sustainability throughout their business, operations, culture, product and services. She holds a postgraduate certificate in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge. She earned multiple certificates from the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability: Business Sustainability Management, Sustainability Essentials; and  Business + Climate Change: Net Zero.

Thomas Kolster is a frontrunner and one of the most recognised thinkers globally where marketing, business and sustainability meet. He continuously challenges the status-quo with his vocal, and often provocative, views on values, purpose, and leadership. In an over-crowded do-good market, people don’t buy your values or your “why”, but rather who you can help them become. 

Written two books: Goodvertising & The Hero Trap 

Delivered keynotes and workshops in +70 markets for clients like Facebook, P&G and IKEA and at conferences such as TEDx, SXSW and 

Judged top-awards such as Jury President at D&AD and Jury at Cannes Lions. 

Delivered longer training programs with universities and the likes of Cannes Lions and D&AD.

Ganesan R. Ampalavanar has 30 years of successful experiences in various management, marketing and sales positions and has been providing strategic and operational leadership for Nestlé. He has strong organizational and interpersonal skills and is committed to organizational performance through result-focus mindset and first- rate people development.

Born in 1965 in Kuala Lumpur, he joined Nestlé at his home country of Malaysia as Management Trainee in 1991 and developed his first years of his career in the Group. He graduated with Bachelor Management (Accounting & Finance) from the University of Science Malaysia and attended post graduate courses at the International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and London Business School, in London, the United Kingdom.

Prior to his appointment as the President Director of PT Nestlé Indonesia, Ganesan has held various positions as Sales Director of Nestlé Malaysia in 2004, Executive Vice President – Sales of Nestlé South Asia Region based in New Delhi in 2008, Managing Director of Nestlé Sri Lanka in 2013 and Managing Director of Nestlé Vietnam in 2015.

Julia Anderson is the Vice President of Brand Partnerships at charity: water and has been a key member of the organization since 2015. Previously, she led the Brand Experiences team at Refinery29, the leading digital media and entertainment platform for women. During her tenure, she helped scale and grow a multi-million dollar portfolio of fashion partners including H&M, Neiman Marcus, Old Navy, and Cartier. Julia earned a BA in Women and Gender Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

James Best CBE, FIPA, is Chair of the UK Committees of Advertising Practice and of Credos. With 50 years’ experience in the advertising industry, he has been Chair of the Advertising Association and President of the EACA.

Stephen became CEO of the Advertising Association in October 2016. The AA promotes the role and rights of responsible advertising and its value to people, society, business and the economy. The leading advertising trade bodies, commercial media owners and tech platforms are all members of the AA. The AA focuses on ad industry priorities, such as public trust in advertising, inclusion through the All In programme and sustainability, as the home of Ad Net Zero, which started in the UK and now extends internationally. The AA lobbies on behalf of the industry with Government and promotes the economic value of the industry through the ‘Advertising Pays’ reports. It is the home of Media Smart, the industry’s media literacy programme and the UK Advertising Export Group, promoting the UK’s world-leading exports performance.

Before the AA, Stephen held leadership roles in four agency groups (Leo Burnett, WCRS/Engine and DDB/adam&eveDDB and Next 15). He is a Governor of Ravensbourne University in London, the UK’s newest creative and technology university. He chairs The Debating Group, a cross-industry programme that hosts debates on industry issues in Parliament. He is a past President of NABS and serves on the board of the History of Advertising Trust. He was IPA President (2003-05) where he led both their first ethnic diversity initiative and launched its professional qualifications, which over 20,000 people have now passed in the UK and around the world.