NEIL FRENCH
WPP WORLDWIDE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Neil French has been a rent collector, account executive, advertising manager, waiter, singer, matador, beach-bum, pornographer, bouncer, debt-collector, concert promoter, nightclub owner, Judas Priests' rock-band manager, copywriter, art-director, creative director, film director, actor, television station owner, Worldwide Creative Director of Ogilvy and most recently, Godfather and Worldwide Creative Director of WPP.

Overseeing one of the world’s largest communication networks and parent company to companies that include Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam, JWT, Grey Worldwide, Hill & Knowlton, Bates, Red Cell, Mindshare and Wunderman, Neil is internationally recognized as the best copywriter that ever lived. Reputed to have won more creative awards than anyone in the world, his ads and leadership have shaped and influenced advertising in every corner of the world.