Kainaz Karmakar, Kazoo Sato, Kazuhiro Shimura, Anupriya Acharya and Sindhuja Rai named Jury Presidents for Cannes Lions 2026
Cannes Lions 2026 has announced its jury lineup, including 5 Jury Presidents and 44 Jury members from Asia. The Jury Presidents are Ogilvy India’s Kainaz Karmakar, Earth Centric Design Japan’s Kazoo Sato, Dentsu Inc Japan’s Kazuhiro Shimura, Publicis Groupe South Asia’s Anupriya Acharya and WPP Media APMEA’s Sindhuja Rai.
India and Japan have the most jurors with 12 and 9 respectively. See Asia’s jurors below:
Kainaz Karmakar | Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy, India
Anupriya Acharya | CEO, Publicis Groupe, South Asia
Rakesh Menon | Chief Creative Experience Officer, Ulka, India
Dheeraj Sinha | CEO, McCann, India
Gurbaksh Singh | Chief Creative Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, Dentsu Creative, India
Prachi Narayan | Managing Partner, Havas Play, India
Amitesh Rao | CEO, Leo, South Asia
Subhajit Mukherjee | Music Composer, India
Binda Dey | Global Chief Marketing Officer, Knight Riders Sports, India
Anisha Iyer | CEO, OMD, India
Pooja Manek | Creative and Founding Member, Talented Agency, India
Dhruv Warrior | Executive Creative Director, VML, India
Kazoo Sato | Chief Creative Officer and CEO, Earth Centric Design, Japan
Kazuhiro Shimura | Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
Satoshi Chikayama | Executive Creative Director, Hakuhodo, Japan
Ikuko Ohta | Chief Strategy Officer, Droga5 Tokyo, part of Accenture Song, Japan
Ayu Sasaki | Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
Yoshihiro Kono | Senior Art Director, TBWA\HAKUHODO, Japan
Rick Sakurai | Creative Director and Managing Director, MassiveMusic Tokyo, APAC
Maiya Kinoshita | Creative Director, TBWA\Media Arts Lab Tokyo, Japan
Mina Sakai | Chief Consultant, Dentsu PR Consulting Inc., Japan
Park Wannasiri | Chief Creative Officer, VML, Thailand
Damisa Ongsiriwattana | Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, SOUR Bangkok, Thailand
Atta Hemwadee | Director, Attah Film, Thailand
Jung A Kim | CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Innocean, South Korea
Kyungsin Kim | CEO and Executive Creative Director, Paulus, South Korea
Alice Chou | Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Creative, Taiwan
Giant Kung | Chief Creative Officer and Writer, Ogilvy, Taiwan
Vicky Lee | Executive Creative Director, Medialand Digital Strategy, Taiwan
Lili Jiang | Executive Creative Director, Cheil Worldwide, Hong Kong SAR
Wei Fei | Group Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy Shanghai, Mainland China
Ben Sun Erhei | CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Havas Creative China, Mainland China
Mo Chen | Executive Creative Director, TBWA\China, Mainland China
Ian Loon | CEO, Media and Digital, Singapore and Chief Transformation Officer, Southeast Asia, Publicis Groupe, Singapore and Southeast Asia
Fran Palines | Creative Director, VML Manila, the Philippines
Donevan Chew | Chief Creative Officer, Havas, Malaysia
Asma Humayun | Global Creative Director and Senior Producer, Shiny Toy Guns, Pakistan and Global
Defri Dwipaputra | Chief Creative Experience Officer, Dentsu Creative, Indonesia
Thanh Anh Nguyen | Head of Marketing and Commercial, Grab, Vietnam
Yuliya Tushina | CEO, Creative Division, DASM, Kazakhstan
Sindhuja Rai | Chief Client Officer, WPP Media, APMEA
Danielle Jin | Chief Marketing Officer, Asia Pacific, Visa, APAC
Ben Miles | Chief Design Officer, R/GA, APAC
Lulu Raghavan | President, Landor, APAC
Jason Williams | Head of Creative Excellence, APAC, Publicis Groupe, APAC
Guy Futcher | Regional Executive Creative Director, Octagon, APAC
Melody Li | SVP, Business Development, Dentsu Sports International, APAC
Sharon Tan | Head of Client and Growth, Publicis Health, APAC
Tim Green | Chief Creative Officer, Edelman, APAC
View the full global jury lineup.
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will take place from 22–26 June 2026 in Cannes, France, bringing together global leaders across advertising, marketing, media, technology and business.
Says Simon Cook, CEO, LIONS: “The impact of the Cannes Lions Jury can’t be underestimated. Their time and expertise in recognising groundbreaking work sets the global creative benchmark for the year ahead and provides a view of the future shape of creativity.
“Each year, our Juries are carefully selected to uphold this standard, and this year is no exception. Welcoming new expert voices across a breadth of markets and disciplines, we are delighted to bring together some of the industry’s most well-respected leaders to define the creative standards driving our industry forward and celebrate the transformative power of creativity to create change, shape society, and build business.”
The line-up for the Creative Brand, Dan Wieden Titanium and Luxury Juries are yet to be announced.