Meet the 2026 Jury Presidents
This year’s Jury Presidents have set the benchmark for creative excellence.
Collectively responsible for over 900 D&AD Awards - including 74 Yellow Pencils, 2 White Pencils, and 4 coveted Black Pencils - they have shaped brand transformations, designed culture-shifting campaigns, and created visual languages for some of the world’s most iconic brands, platforms, and creators - from Nike to Netflix, Airbnb to Adobe, the BBC to Beyoncé.
They include CCOs, founders, filmmakers, designers, producers, editors, and innovators across every corner of the industry. They’ve worked with global giants and emerging disruptors. They’ve shaped the creative industries as we know them, and built new worlds from pixels, paper, and pure imagination.
Together, they represent the very best of what creativity can be: alive, experimental, and relentlessly driven by action. As we launch this year’s D&AD Awards, they’re not just judging the work; they’re challenging you to prove creativity is still alive.
Think it is? Show them.
“This year’s D&AD Jury Presidents represent an outstanding breadth of creative leadership, each one proving that creativity is not only alive, but vital to our industry. I am confident they will guide their juries with fairness, openness and transparency, upholding D&AD’s integrity while championing the very best in commercial creativity above all else.”
Donal KeenanCOO, D&AD
2026 JURY PRESIDENTS BY DISCIPLINE
ADVERTISING
Digital Marketing - Tara McKenty, Chief Creative Officer, AKQA AU/NZ
Film - Brent Anderson, Global Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\Media Arts Lab
Press & Outdoor - Reed Collins, Chief Creative Officer APAC, Ogilvy
Radio & Audio - Mandie van der Merwe, Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi
BRAND
Brand Identity Refresh - Teemu Suviala, Global Chief Creative Officer, Landor
New Brand Identity - Cat How, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Executive Creative Director, How&How
Brand Transformation NEW - to be announced
CRAFT
Animation - Marilena Vatseri, Creative Director & Managing Partner, NOMINT
Art Direction - Yoshihiro Yagi, Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Tokyo
Casting - Claire Catterson, Casting Director, Claire Catterson Casting
Cinematography - to be announced
Direction - Gabriel Moses, Director, DIVISION
Editing - Yorgos Lamprinos, Editor, Cosmic
Illustration - Noma Bar, Graphic Designer & Illustrator, DUTCH UNCLE
Photography - Prashant Godbole, Founder & Photographer, ideas@work Advertising
Production Design - Dulcidio Caldeira, Partner & Director, Boiler Films
Sound Design & Use of Music - Gilvana Viana, CEO & Executive Producer, MugShot
Typography - Liu Zhao, Founder & Creative Director, another design
Visual Effects - Louise Unwin, Executive Producer, Jamm Visual
Writing for Advertising - Barbara Humphries, Chief Creative Officer, Droga5 ANZ
Writing for Design - Holly Kielty, Writer & Creative Strategist, Holly Kielty Limited
CULTURE
Cultural Influence NEW - Geoff Edwards, Managing Director - Creative, GALE
Entertainment & Sports Entertainment NEW - Matt Murphy, Global Chief Creative Officer, 72andSunny
Gaming & Virtual Worlds - Claudio Lima, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, WOW Gaming Ventures
Music Videos - child., Director, De La Revolución
DESIGN
Book Design - David Pearson, Book Designer/Founder, Type as Image/The Book Cover Review
Digital Experience Design - Teo Connor, Vice President of Design, Airbnb
Graphic Design - Naomi Hirabayashi, Art Director & Graphic Designer, PLUG-IN GRAPHIC
Magazine & Newspaper Design - Birthe Steinbeck, Founder & Director/Art Director, STUDIO STEINBECK/SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MAGAZIN
Packaging Design - Gush Mundae, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Bulletproof
Product Design - Tom Lloyd, Co-Founder, Pearson Lloyd
Spatial Design - to be announced
Type Design & Lettering - Veronika Burian, Creative Type Director & Co-Founder, TypeTogether
ENGAGEMENT & EXPERIENCE
Commerce - Till Diestel, Chief Creative Officer, Serviceplan Germany
Creator Content - Akanksha Goel, Vice President, Regional Lead for the Middle East & India / Founder & CEO, We Are Social - Socialize
Direct - Danilo Boer, Global Creative Partner, FCB
Experiential: Activation & Participation - Youri Guerassimov, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Creative Officer, Marcel
Luxury - Priya Matadeen, Brand Director, Mulberry
Media - Resh Sidhu, Senior Global Director - Innovation & Marketing, Snap Inc.
PR - to be announced
HEALTH
Health & Wellbeing and Pharma - Eric Weisberg, Global Chief Creative Officer, Havas Health and You
IMPACT
Impact, Future Impact & Sustained Impact - Ali Rez, Chief Creative Officer, Impact BBDO
With more to be announced.