Cannes Lions announces 2026 Shortlisting Jury line-up

Record number of independent agencies join the line-up, alongside talent from leading established creative agencies and brands

Cannes Lions has announced the Shortlisting Jury for this year’s Festival. The Jury will shortlist world-class creative work that will go on to be judged, awarded and celebrated during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place 22–26 June 2026.

This year’s global line-up brings together a diverse collection of experts reflecting the full breadth of disciplines across the creative landscape. The line-up welcomes increased representation from across Pacific and Africa, including Jurors from Ethiopia, Namibia and Zimbabwe for the first time, alongside over 40 independent agencies making their Jury debut this year. Among the notable firsts is HumanSense, an independent agency that marks Sri Lanka’s first-ever Cannes Lions Juror.

Commenting on this year’s line-up, Simon Cook, CEO, LIONS, said: “The Shortlisting Jury play a crucial role in the Awards. Their work in recognising groundbreaking creativity establishes the standard of excellence celebrated at the Festival. This year’s line-up brings together an exceptional cohort of talent from across a breadth of specialisms and markets. Their unique expertise will ensure the shortlist champions the innovative work driving the industry forward. Thank you to our Jurors for dedicating their time to curating the body of work that will set the global creative benchmark for the year ahead.”

The 2026 Shortlisting Jurors have been named as:

Brand Experience & Activation Alkisti Stolp | CEO, McCann, Germany Anton Kim | Chief Marketing Officer, Forte, Kazakhstan Cristina Re Calegari | Head of Marketing and Communication, Synlab Italia, Italy Deh Bastos | Creative and Content Director, Paim, Brazil Delali Dzidzienyo | Head, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, First National Bank Ghana, Africa Eka Kipiani | Creative Director and Founder, Supermarket, Georgia Florencia Loda | Chief Creative Officer, draftLine, AB InBev, Argentina Heinrich Vejlgaard | Executive Creative Director, Robert/Boisen & Like-Minded, Denmark Humza Ijaz | Managing Director, Head of Design and Digital Products, Accenture Song, Middle East Ivan Landzhev | Chief Creative Officer, gutsandbrainsDDB, Bulgaria Jan Ott Hendrik | Executive Creative Director, BBDO Beijing, Mainland China Jon Biggs | EMEA Executive Creative Director, Monks, EMEA Jonelle Ricketts | Head of Marketing, IKEA, Canada Josephine Muvumba | Managing Director, MetropolitanRepublic, Uganda Karla Bonilla | President and Chief Creative Officer, Fire Creative, Puerto Rico Kit Koh | Group Executive Creative Director, Leo Shanghai, Mainland China Laurent Marcus | Innovation and Technology Director, Special Group, Australia Mabel Adeteye | Head of Brands and Marketing Communications, Wema Bank, Nigeria Márton Jedlicska | Executive Creative Director, Publicis Groupe, Hungary Moumita Pal | National Creative Director, Dentsu Creative, India Nina East | Group Creative Director, Ogilvy, Australia Penny Sadlier | Managing Director, LePub Singapore and PG One APAC, Singapore and APAC Ricardo Aspiazu | SVP - Creative and Brand Design, Verizon, USA Ricardo Mendoza | Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy, Guatemala Rizek Jildeh | Head of Strategy, Adpro&, Jordan Rob Longuet | Creative Director, Dentsu Creative, Aotearoa New Zealand Saakshi Verma Menon | Chief Marketing Officer, Foods, PepsiCo, India Sebastien Zanini | Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Creative Paris, France Shu Hung | Global Chief Creative Officer, AKQA, Global Veronica Ruiz del Vizo | CEO, Amarillo Creative Lab, Venezuela Warunyoo Sorasetsakoon | Executive Creative Director, BBDO Bangkok, Thailand Winston Binch | Chief Brand and Experience Officer, GALE, USA

Creative Strategy Aki Spicer | Chief Strategy Officer and Consultant, formerly Cashmere and Monks, USA Amine Bennis | CEO, Tribal Casablanca, Morocco Carmen Rodriguez | Global Chief Growth Officer, GUT, Global David Halter | Chief Practice Officer, Dentsu Creative, Australia Emeka Obia | Regional Head of Strategy, Publicis West Africa, West and Central Africa Gil Kemami | CEO Pan-Africa, Twotone Global, Kenya Lulu Cuevas | Strategy Director, Cultura de Marcas, LATAM Maria Galleriu | Chief Strategy Officer, International, 72andSunny, Global Nilakshi Medhi | Chief Strategy Officer, Publicis Groupe, Indonesia Rowena Bhagchandani | CEO and Co-Founder, BLKJ Havas, Singapore Shawna Ross | Chief Strategy Officer, Dentsu Creative, USA Taciana Lopes | SVP of Marketing and Communications, Mastercard, Brazil Tarek Sioufi | Chief Strategy Officer, Grey London, UK

Design Akinpelumi Okelola | Senior Design Specialist, NBCUniversal, Global Andrea Castro | Art Director, Joystick, Costa Rica Anna Yates | Executive Creative Director, Host Havas, Australia Anselmo Tumpić | Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director, Studio Tumpić/Prenc, Croatia Anthony Shea | VP, Design Director, Arnold, USA Bastien Baumann | Chief Design Officer, Publicis Groupe, USA Bronwen Rautenbach | Co-Founder and Creative Partner, Sunshinegun, Africa Camila Moleta | Founder, MORE GRLS, Brazil Colin Yesutor | Creative Director, Havas Africa, Ghana and Nigeria David Allard | Executive Creative Director, Sid Lee, Canada David Fischer | Creative Director and Executive Board Member, Scholz & Friends, Switzerland Elin Eskilsson | Creative Director and Brand Designer, Kid Collective AB, Sweden Emma Barratt | Global Executive Creative Director, Wolff Olins, Global Eva Stetefeld | Managing Partner and Executive Creative Director, DDB, Germany Joachim Roncin | Head of Design, Maison Fantôme, France Jyrki Poutanen | Chief Creative Officer, United Imaginations, Finland Nina Granath | Creative Director, Stockholm Design Lab, Sweden Raya AbuJaber | Creative Director, Jordan

Direct Alex Pineda | Chief Creative Officer, Horizon FCB, MENA Arthur Tsang | Chief Creative Officer, McCann China, Greater China Ashish Khazanchi | Managing Partner, Enormous, India Awing Chen | Founder and Creative Partner, Good Percent, Asia David Fraser | Executive Creative Director, BMF, Australia Dudu Mokholo | Chief Marketing Officer, Pernod Ricard, Africa Middle East Emmanuel Amankwah | Executive Creative Director, ReZultz Advertising M&C Saatchi, Ghana Felipe Paniago | Chief Marketing Officer, Reclame AQUI, Brazil Gabriela Ortiz Chacón | Creative Director, PARADAIS TBWA, Ecuador Jenny Mak | Executive Creative Director and Partner, jnr., Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Jesús Rasines | Chief Creative Officer, Havas Creative, Spain Johan Køhler | Creative Director, NoA | &Co., Denmark Kelsey Hodgkin | CEO and Partner, Special US, USA Mateusz Mroszczak | Chief Creative Officer, VML, Singapore Nobuhiro Arai | Executive Creative Director, AKQA Tokyo, Japan Odile Breffa | Strategy Director, Innocean Berlin, Germany Pannarai Juanroong | Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy, Thailand Sally Alzaza | Regional Creative Director, Interesting Times, MENA Sehee Kim | Creative Director, Innocean, South Korea Shani Gershi | VP Creative and Strategy, Kendago, Global Steph Mackie | Co-Founder and Co-Chief Creative Officer, Mackie Biernacki Inc., Global Tawanda Mahobele | Creative Lead, TBWA, Zimbabwe Third Domingo | Founder and Chairman, IdeasXMachina Hakuhodo, the Philippines and APAC Volkan Dalkılıç | Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe, Türkiye Zeynep Orbay | Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Entertainment Amy Mowafi | Co-Founder and CEO, MO4 Network, Egypt Andrea Corvetto | Managing Director, Circus Grey, Peru Brian Carley | Chief Creative Officer, Razorfish, USA Georgina McKinnon | CEO of Content, Omnicom Media Group, APAC Jason Harvey | Executive VP and General Manager, BET+, USA Justin Gomes | Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Bananas, South Africa Mauro Ramalho | Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Brasil, Brazil Michael Nagy | Executive Creative Director and Partner, Jung von Matt DONAU, Austria Olena Martynova | Chief Marketing Officer, Starlight Media and CEO, Starlight Creative, Ukraine Yune Aranguren | Core Brands Director, AB InBev, Mexico

Film Alvaro Rodrigues | CEO, Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, Made, Brazil Ángela Pacheco | Executive Creative Director, El Ruso de Rocky, Spain Asli Sahin | Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy, Germany Dimitri Guerassimov | Chief Creative Officer, VML France and Chief Creative Officer, Colgate-Palmolive, WPP, EMEA Graeme Jenner | Executive Creative Director, LePub Johannesburg, South Africa Ie Tjer Wang | Executive Creative Director, The Shout Group, Malaysia Imani Ellis | CEO and Founder, CultureCon, USA Ion Cojocaru “Lutzu” | Content Director, McCann, Romania Jenny Glover | Chief Creative Officer, Zulu Alpha Kilo, Canada Kanit Mingmuang | Executive Creative Director, Wolf BKK, Thailand Nonthaporn Ketmanee | Senior Creative Director, Leo, Hong Kong SAR Otavio Schiavon | VP, Creative Director, BETC HAVAS, Brazil Penny Brown | Head of Production, Droga5 ANZ, part of Accenture Song, Australia Quods Ouaissi | Chief Creative Officer, TNC - thenext.click, Morocco Richard Williams | Group Executive Creative Director, VML, Australia Ruchi Sharma | Founder and Chief Creative Officer, HumanSense, Sri Lanka Sean Vij | Creative Director and Writer, USA Steve Cochran | Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, Aotearoa New Zealand Thabang Manyelo | Executive Creative Director, The Odd Number, South Africa Theodore Perdikakis | Vice Chairman and Head of Creative, attp, Greece Toby Allen | Chief Creative Officer, Anomaly, London, UK

Film Craft Akanksha Seda | Director, Good Morning Films, India Ale Houston | CEO and Founder, The Lab, Paraguay Ali Rguigue | CEO, Artcoustic, Morocco Amy Coomber | Chief Production Officer, Neverland, UK Amy Gozalka | Group Creative Director, TBWA\Chiat\Day Chicago, USA Archie López | CEO, Panamericana Films, Dominican Republic August Jorfald | Director and Scriptwriter, NewsLab, Norway Colin Foo | Senior Creative Director and VFX Supervisor, thequietlab, Singapore Diana Revelo | Founder and Executive Producer, Akira Cine, Colombia and LATAM Hélène Daubert | VP Create, BETC POP, France Iwona Mnich | Executive Producer, Papaya Films, Global Izzy Ehrlich | Senior Editor and Partner, School Editing, Canada Jet Omoshebi | Senior Colourist, Goldcrest Post Production, UK Katlego Baaitse | Film Director, Spitfire Films, South Africa Luciana Pessoa | Executive Director and Partner, Lado Animation, Brazil Mohamed El Zayat | Film Director, Independent, Egypt Nadine Kriegelstein | Head of R&Studios, Das Rund GmbH, Austria Nathalie Le Caer | Executive Producer, Iconoclast, France Oshoveli Shipoh | Executive Creative Director, StreetLeader Creative, Namibia Phuong Vu | Creative Director, Antiantiart, Vietnam Rebekah Kelly | Executive Producer, FINCH, AUNZ Rodrigo Butori | Group Creative Director, McCann New York, USA Rodrigo "Coco" Casas | Group Creative Director, VML México, Mexico Thom Glover | Chief Creative Officer, American Haiku, USA Tim LeGallo | Chief Production Officer, Ogilvy, North America Wendi Chong | Head of Production and Executive Producer, BBH, Singapore Yoshiki Ishii | CEO and Executive Producer, kirameki inc. and TAKAKKEI Inc., Japan Zelalem Woldemariam | CEO and Chief Creative Director, Zeleman Communications, Ethiopia

Health & Wellness Dr. Adjoa B. Asamoah | THE CROWN Act Champion and CEO, ABA Consulting, USA Arjen Tarras | Executive Creative Director, VML, Belgium Catherine Huang | Director, Public Affairs, Gilead Sciences, Taiwan Charlie Godinet | Executive Creative Director, Daylight, Aotearoa New Zealand Karl Johnson | VP, Group Creative Director, Klick Health, USA Kate Torrance | VP, Head of Brand, SickKids Foundation, Canada Katie McMorran | Group Managing Director, Saatchi & Saatchi Health, Global Lina Polimeni | SVP and Chief Marketing Officer - Consumer, Eli Lilly and Company, USA Mohamed El Nagdy | Creative Director, ‿ and us, UAE Patty Huang | Executive VP, Group Creative Director, 21GRAMS, a Part of Real Chemistry, USA Sadie Mayes | Associate Creative Director, VCCP Health, UK Sarah Amatori | Creative Director, McCann Health Boot, Italy

Media Ahmed Kapadia | Chairman and CEO, Synergy Group, Pakistan Aurelia Noel | Head of Innovation and Transformation, dentsu X, Global Binh Le Ba An | Chief Commercial Officer, Zalo Business, Vietnam Chris Colter | Managing Director, Media Strategy A/NZ, Accenture Song, AUNZ Christina Lu | CEO, Zenith China, Mainland China Duncan Southgate | Global Creative and Media Specialist, Kantar, Global Eileen Ooi | APAC President, PHD Asia Pacific, Malaysia Hemalatha Subramanian | Omnichannel Marketing Lead, M.H.Alshaya, UAE Jackie Lyons | Chief Planning Officer, Havas Media Network, North America John Halpin | CEO, WPP Media, Aotearoa New Zealand LaToya Christian | Founder and Strategic Advisor, Brazen, USA María José Ezquerra | CEO, Havas, Argentina and Uruguay Martin Woska | Chief Creative and Strategy Officer, TRIAD, Slovakia Maya Kusybi | Business Director - Strategy, Zenith Media, MENA Michelle Sarpong | Head of Activation, the7stars, UK Monica Blanco | Strategy Director, PHD, Costa Rica Preeti Nadgar | Chief Strategy Officer, Starcom, USA Promise Oduh | Associate Director, mediaReachOMD, Nigeria Rafael Urbano | CEO, Carat, Spain Rafet Fatih Özgür | SVP Brand and Promotion, Turkish Airlines, Turkey Rajna Cuculić | Managing Director, WPP Media, Croatia Swapnil Patel | Co-President, Attention Arc, USA Urania Agas | Chief Operating Officer, WPP Media, Canada Valeria Brasil | Comms and Media Director, Wieden+Kennedy, Brazil

Outdoor Andi Olbés | Group Creative Director, BBDO Guerrero, the Philippines Anthony Eigbe | Chief Creative Officer, West Africa, TECNO Mobile Global, Nigeria Biboy Royong | Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Creative Philippines, the Philippines Camilo Carvajal | Chief Creative Officer, LePub Bogotá, Colombia Danger Bea | Executive VP, Executive Creative Director, West BBDO, USA Erika Kohnen | Group Creative Director, Droga5 New York, part of Accenture Song, USA Galaletsang Kgoathe | Creative Partner, Ogilvy, South Africa Jose Ignacio Solari | Chief Creative Officer, Puerto Chile, Chile Kayoung Seo | Creative Director, Cheil Worldwide, South Korea Leopold Kreczy | Head of Creative Performance and Creative Director, Wien Nord Serviceplan, Austria Lisa Carrana | Executive Head of Art, M+C Saatchi, UK Madis Ots | Creative Director, Salama, Estonia Magda Szmilewska | Media Director, Oatly, Global Malek Ghorayeb | Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Communications Levant, Lebanon Mandy Wong | CEO, TBWA\Singapore, Singapore Miguel Durão | Creative Partner, Stream and Tough Guy, Portugal Mohamed Bareche | Executive Creative Director, Havas, Paris and Middle East Rafael Barthaburu | Chief Creative Officer, VML, Uruguay Ramy El Sakka | Chief Creative Officer, BPG, UAE Sarah Dornieden | Creative Director, Jung von Matt SPREE, Germany Suchitra Gahlot | National Creative Director, McCann India, India Tamara Cross | Chief Creative Officer, MG OMD, UK Tejali Shete | Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Roll Dot Agency, Global Thea Heber B Iversen | Creative Copywriter, Monologtheateret, Norway Thembalethu Msibi | Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, BlackSwan, South Africa Tommy Cehak | Executive Creative Director, Leo, Australia Wei Wen Kong | Creative Director, Muma, Malaysia

PR Andres Ortiz | Partner and General Director, LLYC, Colombia Björn Mellstrand | Head of Strategy and Advisor, JMW Kommunikation / JMWGolin, Sweden Chad Song | Chief Vision Officer, CRACK THE NUTS Inc., Global Deirdre Murphy | Global Client Partner, Ketchum, Global Eleanor Sullivan | Chief Strategy Officer, Burson, UK Felipe Braz Costa | Executive Creative Director, Edelman, EMEA Keri-Ann Stanton | Chief Strategist and Founder, K.A.Muses Group (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Khaled Elseginy | Head of Brand Communications, Feminine Care and Levant E2E Commercial Lead, P&G, Asia, Middle East and Africa Louisa Hager | Group Creative Director, Weber Shandwick, USA Marc Antoine Koreki | Managing Director, Havas Africa Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast Max Burt | General Manager, One Plus One Communications, Aotearoa New Zealand Nozipho Tshabalala | CEO, The Conversation Strategists, Global Omawumi Ogbe | Founder and Managing Partner, GLG Communications, Nigeria Peter de Albuquerque | Executive Strategist and Founder, PEDAL, Global Shelley Sorensen | Executive VP, Dentsu Creative, USA Silvia Lenberger | Head of Global Brand Experience, Nestlé, Global Sonia Huria | Head - Brand, Social and Corporate Comms, Maddock Films, India Vladimír Bystrov | Managing Partner, Bison & Rose, Czech Republic

Social & Creator Aditya Sunilkumar | Executive Creative Director and Head of Digital, Havas Creative Worldwide, India Adriano Abdalla | Chief Creative Officer, PROS, Brazil Ben Lilley | Creative Chairman, HERO/McCann Australia, Australia Bridget Harpur | Head of Marketing, Volkswagen Group Africa, South Africa Carla Leveratto | Head of Creative Works, Google, Italy Carlos Rodriguez | Global Creative Director, Frank at Omnicom, Global Corianda Dimes | Senior Manager, Ads Marketing Strategy, Netflix, USA Dawid Szczepaniak | Creative Chairman, VML, Poland Francesco Grandi | Chief Creative Officer, LePub London, UK Genevieve Gransden | Executive Creative Director, DAVID London, UK Jan Propach | Executive Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi, Global and Europe Joel Rodriguez | Head of Context Planning, Translation / UnitedMasters, USA Monica Tailor | Chief Social Marketing Officer, McCann Content Studios, Global Patt Nitikarn | Managing Director, We Are Social, Thailand Sanya Grujicic | Executive Creative Director, Monks, Canada Sarah-Jane Lowes | Head of Social and Digital, Droga5 Dublin, part of Accenture Song, UK and Ireland Sharon Mills | Lead Creative Consultant, SMC Consulting, Ghana Shinsuke (Sawa) Sawasaki | Group Executive Creative Director, Havas, Japan Sibu Mabena | Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Duma Collective, South Africa

The 73rd edition of the Festival takes place from 22 to 26 June in Cannes, France. Pass options can be found at www.canneslions.com.