Nigeria’s Amachree, Oyegbola, Temitope Make Cannes Lions 2025 Shortlisting Jury Line-up

Sandra Amachree, Head of Communications – Marketing, HEINEKEN, Nigeria; Dare Oyegbola, Head Agency Operations at Havas Play Nigeria and Ghana; Joseph Temitope, Director, Brand Strategy, Dentsu Creative, Nigeria and Tracey Afuwape, Chief Strategy Director, PHD, Nigeria, have made it to the Cannes Lions 2025 Shortlisting Jury line-up.

Cannes Lions announced the line-up of global experts from across the creative industries who will shortlist world-class creative work for the 2025 awards. Work from across the globe will be judged, awarded and celebrated during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, running from 16 to 20 June 2025.

Announced last Thursday are experts from across 79 markets, representing the global industry’s leading talent from a diverse range of disciplines. Markets represented on the Shortlisting Jury for the first time are Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland and Mongolia.

Joining these experts, Sandra Amachree will serve as a juror for the Outdoor Lions, Dare Oyegbola will serve in the Experience Track jury while Joseph Temitope will serve in the Strategy track jury. And Tracey Afuwape will judge the Media Lions.

Commenting on the 2025 shortlisting jury line-up,  Simon Cook, CEO, LIONS, said, “All our Jurors play a crucial role in shaping the work awarded at Cannes Lions. This year, we are seeing an unprecedented level of global engagement from deserving talent, with more markets, more voices, and more perspectives coming together to recognise the global benchmark. I’d like to extend my gratitude for their hard work and care in curating the work that will go on to set the global standard and make history.”

Marian Brannelly, Global Director of Awards, LIONS, added, “The 2025 Shortlisting Jury is a true reflection of the global nature of creativity today. The addition of new markets like Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland, and Mongolia is a testament to the rising creative influence and economies of these regions. As the creative landscape evolves, we are proud to have an increasing number of voices that represent the rich diversity of talent across the globe.”

The 2025 Shortlisting Jurors have been named as:

Classic Track

Audio & Radio Lions: Amanda Smith | Creative Director, BUCK, the Netherlands; Athina Afton Lalljee | Creative Director, McCann, Canada; Chesley Maddox-Dorsey | CEO, AURN, USA Fadi Mroue | Chief Creative Officer, SRMG, Saudi Arabia Jon Austin | Co-Founder and Creative Lead, Supermassive, Australia Laura Tohtua | Creative Director, N2 Creative, Finland Lovemore Muzwayine | Sound Designer, Aquanote Productions, South Africa Marlene Bacher | Creative Director, Jung von Matt DONAU, Austria Ramiro Rodriguez Gamallo | Chief Creative Officer and Partner, GUT, Argentina.

Film Lions: Alexis Bronstorph | Chief Creative Officer, No Fixed Address, Canada Alfred Wong | Chief Creative Officer, VML, Hong Kong SAR Andre Pedroso | Chief Creative Officer, Delta MullenLowe, Ecuador Andy Del Rosario | Associate Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, the Philippines Arm Buddhaphol | Executive Creative Director, Rabbit’s Tale, part of Accenture Song, Thailand Ben Coulson | Chief Creative Officer, dentsu, APAC Cristóbal Pérez-Gazitúa S. | Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Believe, Chile Damien Guiol | Chief Creative Officer, Change an FCB alliance, France Jenna Livingston | Global Creative Director, Meta, Global Jexy Holman | Executive Creative Director, LePub New York, USA Joffre Carmona | Global Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, Buentipo, Global Leah Churchill-Brown | Executive Producer, Exit Films, Australia Louise Bonnar | Head of Film, Havas London, UK Luca Cortesini | Chief Creative Officer, DDB Group, Italy Maarten De Maayer | Creative Director, Publicis Groupe, Belgium Mahmoud Shokri | Creative Director and Co-Founder, ABDULLAH & SHOKRI, Egypt Nuno Riça | Creative Director, BAR Ogilvy, Portugal Peter Kain | Executive Creative Director, BBDO New York, USA Rebecca Bourke | Founder and Executive Producer, Assembly Ireland and Apex UK, Ireland and UK Rikke Sofie Jacobsen | Senior Creative and Partner, POL, Norway Sara Samsøe | Executive Producer and Head of Production, new-land, Denmark Seulki Lee | Executive Creative Director, Cheil Worldwide, South Korea Sharon Mills | Lead Creative Consultant, SMC Consulting, Ghana Sophie Gold | President, Eleanor, USA Tian It Ng | Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Communications Beijing, Mainland China.

Outdoor Lions: Alejandro Barrera | Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, Colombia Amber Ward | CEO, Invisible North, USA Amy Weston | Executive Creative Director, Clemenger BBDO, Australia Anne-Claude Chénier | Chief Creative Officer, Cossette East, Cossette, Canada Biboy Royong | Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Creative, the Philippines Bruno Trad | Creative Director, Alma DDB, USA Carla Alonso Cancellara | VP of Creative, Fbiz, Brazil Enkhbayasgalan Tungalag | CEO, KMG Creative Group, APAC Fumani Khumalo | Creative Group Head, VML, South Africa Hanna Meijer | Senior Art Director, Åkestam Holst NOA, Sweden István Bracsok | Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, White Rabbit Budapest, Hungary Janez Rakušček | Executive Creative Director, Luna \TBWA, Slovenia Katy Hopkins | Executive Creative Director, Iris, UK Kristine Holzhausen | Chief Creative Officer, Leo, Germany Lauren Smith | Executive Creative Director, 72andSunny, USA Michele De iuliis | Associate Creative Director, Havas Middle East, United Arab Emirates Nikki Lindman | Creative Director, VCCP London, UK Ricardo Avilés | Chief Creative Officer, LePub, Mexico Robert Slovak | Creative Director, Slovák & Friends, Slovakia Sachini Imbuldeniya | CEO, House of Oddities, UK Sandra Amachree | Head of Communications – Marketing, HEINEKEN, Nigeria Seung Jae Lee | Chief Creative Officer, IDEOT, South Korea Sheng Jin Ang | Executive Creative Director, MullenLowe, Singapore Stefania Siani | CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Serviceplan Italia, Italy Steph Cajucom | Senior Creative Director, Amazon Brand Innovation Lab, USA

Craft Track

Design Lions: Basel Jumaa | Executive Creative Director, VML, Jordan Brandt Botes | Head of Design, Dentsu Creative, South Africa Clara Mulligan | European Head of Design, Managing Partner, Anomaly, Europe Dever Thomas | Partner, Design, Work & Co, part of Accenture Song, Denmark Gerardo Ortiz | Co-Founder / CEO, Brands&People, Mexico Hrafn Gunnarsson | Creative Director, Brandenburg, Iceland Jean-Jacques Charrais | Creative Director, W Conran Design, France Koutouan Luc Emmanuel Aboussou | Group Creative Director, Publicis West Africa, West Africa Lauren Kimball | Executive VP, Experience Design Director, Edelman, USA Lucia Müller | Creative Director, Ideal Axicom, Brazil Marianne Waite | Global Director of Inclusivity, Interbrand, Global Michael Wilk | Global Head of Art, Serviceplan Group, Global Nari Moon | Creative Director, INNOCEAN, South Korea Paul O’Brien | Design Director, Elmwood, UK Zeynep Orbay | Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy, the Netherlands.

Film Craft Lions: Alexandra Roussel | Head Executive Producer, Eddy Production, France Anastacia Lee | CEO and Executive Producer, DBLA hybrid production studio, Uzbekistan Asma Humayun | Global Creative Director and Senior Producer, Shiny Toy Guns, Pakistan and Global David Mesfin | VP Creative Director, INNOCEAN, USA Diego de la Maza | Chief Production Officer, Deutsch, USA Elie Fahed | Film Director, See You on Set Films, Lebanon Eva de Lera | Founder and Executive Producer, Lobo Kane, Spain Giant Kung | Chief Creative Officer and Writer, Ogilvy, Taiwan Julian Maira | Director, 14 al Centro, LATAM Kevin Jin | Chief Creative Officer, BBDO Shanghai, BBDO China, Mainland China Konstantin Trendafilov | Founder and Creative Director, Human, Bulgaria Liesl Lategan Kyriakou | Founder and Executive Producer, Spitfire Films, South Africa Maria Teresa Benvenuto | Creative Executive Producer, Canica Films, Peru Meji Alabi | Director, RSA Films and JM Films, UK Melissa Tifrere | Chief Production Officer, Havas Creative Network, USA Nayla Chacra | Head of Post Production and Executive Producer, Prodigious, Global Nicole Godoy | Head of Production, VML, Brazil Nneka Onuorah | Filmmaker, Nneka Productions, USA Vivek Dubey | Director, Manjumaa, India Wandile Zulu | CEO, Pitch Black Post, South Africa.

Industry Craft Lions: Arnab Ray | Executive Creative Director, Landor, India Devaksha Vallabhjee | Creative Group Head, FCB Africa, South Africa Farid Bawa | Head of Design, 180 Amsterdam, the Netherlands Genevieve Wilkins | Executive VP, Creative, ROKK Solutions, USA Gianni Tozzi | Global Chief Creative Officer, FutureBrand, Italy Giannis Vassilopoulos | Group Creative Director, Frank&Fame, Greece Jelena Fiškuš | Creative Director and Co-Founder, Studio Sonda, Croatia Olivier Le Lostec | Creative Director, DDB Paris, France Osvaldo Restrepo | General Creative Director, Corkidi Studios, Panama Rafael Gil | Chief Creative Officer, Artplan, Brazil Rosie Stone | Associate Creative Director, Leo, Australia Serena Di Bruno | Chief Creative Officer, BBDO, Italy

Engagement Track

Direct Lions: Andrea Cook | CEO, JAM CRM, Canada Benjamin Anyan | Group Creative & Strategy Director, Publicis West Africa, Central And West Africa Region Christina Aventi | Chief Strategy Officer, BMF, Australia Clíona Hayes | Senior Director of Global Brand and Advertising, Indeed, Global Donovan Bryan | Executive Creative Director, McCann, Germany Edgard Gianesi | Chief Creative Officer, DAVID, USA Hope Nardini | Global Executive Creative Director, Grey, Global Hwee Peng Koh | Creative Partner, Blak Labs, Global Klára Palmer | Chief Creative Officer, DDB Prague, Czech Republic Linda Kachingwe-Sisya | Executive Marketing & Communication Head – Africa and International, Rand Merchant Bank, Global Marcelo Bruzzesi | Regional Executive Creative Director, Havas, LATAM Marcelo Waintraub | Chief Creative Officer, From, Uruguay Martino Caliendo | Associate Creative Director, Impact BBDO, UAE Orkhan Karim | Founder, Executive Creative Director, Endorphin, Azerbaijan Prajato Guha Thakurta | Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, MANJA, India Salim Mohamed | Head of Strategy (Creative & Media Practice), Dentsu, Malaysia Sandrine Le Goff | Executive Creative Director, LePub Amsterdam, the Netherlands Sarah Mestarihi | Creative Director, M+C Saatchi Group, Qatar Tanya De Poli | Founder and CEO, Founders, USA Tara Lawall | Chief Creative Officer, Rethink, USA Winona Wee | Senior Creative, Wieden+Kennedy London, UK.

Media Lions: Abby Wong | Chief Strategy Officer, Greater China, IPG Mediabrands, Greater China Amanda Morrissey | Global President and Chief Growth Officer, iProspect, dentsu, Global Brooke Leland | President, Mekanism Media, Canada Claudelle Naidoo | CEO, GroupM, Sub-Saharan Africa Daniel Shepherd | Group Chief Strategy Officer, Omnicom Media Group, MENA David McCallen | Chief Strategy Officer – APAC, OMD, APAC Elizabeth Anyaegbuna | Co-Founder, 16x9media, UK Haris Mujanović | CEO, Via Media, Bosnia and Herzegovina Harry Walker | Director, Agencies & Media, Google, Spain and Portugal Ian Mc Grath | Chief Operations Officer Media, dentsu, Ireland Jolene D’Souza | Group Strategy Director, Special, Aotearoa New Zealand Juan Rafael Fabián | Founder and Chairman, Minderlust Group, Dominican Republic Lara Arbid | CEO, Initiative and Magna Global, MENAT Lara Jelinski | CEO Austria and Media Switzerland, dentsu AG, Austria and Switzerland Mahesh Krishna | Executive VP of Strategy, Spark Foundry, USA Manzar Feres | Globo Managing Director, Advertising, Globo, Brazil Nataliya Morozova | Managing Partner, Havas Village, Ukraine Nicolas Piris | Global Head of Client Marketing, Bloomberg, Global Sibel Ülkü | Executive Client Lead, GroupM and Wavemaker, Turkey Sumanta Ganguly | Chief Strategy Officer, Ogilvy Africa, Sub Saharan Africa

 Takamasa Hirai | Senior Planning Director / Vertical Planner, ADK Marketing Solutions, Japan, Tracey Afuwape | Chief Strategy Director, PHD, Nigeria

Vineeth Dhruvan | CEO, Publicis Media, Vietnam.

PR Lions: Angelina Villanueva | Chief Marketing Officer, Asia Business Unit, McDonald’s, Asia Bridget Jung | Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy, Australia Carme Miró | CEO, APPLE TREE, EMEA Christian Anhut | Chief Creative Officer, Edelman, Germany Daryl Ho | Managing Director, We. Communications, Singapore Florencia Kessler | Global Creative Reputation Officer, Grey, Global Holly Gilbert | Executive VP, Dentsu Creative, USA Khangelani Dziba | Group Divisional Head: PR & Influencer Marketing, RAPT Creative Agency, South Africa Lorella Gessa | Chief Communications Officer, Vivendi, France Marta Sigarán | Partner – Country Manager, CCK, El Salvador Masashi Kitaichi | Managing Director, Havas Red, Japan Nina Pickup | Executive Sustainability and Creative Strategist, UK Peter Jacob | Managing Director, MENAT, Current Global, MENAT Rejane Romano | ESG Director, Publicis Groupe, Brazil Sarah Hargrave | CEO, Porter Novelli, UK Tony O’Neill | Executive VP, Executive Creative Director, Golin, USA.

Social & Creator Lions: Adriana Gomez Gil | Influencer Marketing Team Leader, Human To Human, Spain Andre van Niekerk | Global Digital Partner and Head of Digital Operations, Carat, Global Asawin Phanichwatana | Creative, Thailand Carolina Eugenia del Hoyo | Regional Marketing Director, Fratelli Branca, Argentina César Castaño | Executive Creative Director, Monks, Colombia Enoma Edevbaro | Head of SEK Social, SEK, Finland Erika Romero | Creative Director, Tazi Almaty/ FCB, Kazakhstan Estelle Khayat | Associate Strategy Director, Leo, MENA Frank Cartagena | CEO, MullenLowe, USA Ibrahim Seck | Creative Director, Monks, France Jeannette Bohné | Managing Director, Serviceplan Berlin, Germany María Madriz | Creative Director, Joystick, FIFCO, Costa Rica Mike Sharman | Chief Creative Officer, Retroviral, South Africa Mohammed Ajawi | Director of Digital Experience, Ogilvy, UAE Nabil Sarih | Creative Director, VML Casablanca, Morocco Rafael Gonzaga | Executive VP, Executive Creative Director, WEST BBDO, USA Shohei Ooishi | Copywriter, TBWA\HAKUHODO, Japan Smaran Jworchan | Creative Business Partner, TikTok, AUNZ Sophie van der Schaft | Founder and co-CEO, AndAgencyAmsterdam, the Netherlands Star Kachisa | Head of Marketing, Spotify, Sub-Saharan Africa Vicky Lee | Executive Creative Director, Medialand Digital Strategy, Taiwan.

Entertainment Track

Entertainment Lions: Abdul Karim Abudullah | CEO, Culture Management Group / Afrofuture Festival, Ghana Calvin Innes | General Manager and Executive Creative Director, Jung Von Matt NERD, Global Cathy Boxall | Global Head of Entertainment, Dentsu, Global Dawn Reese | President, Mediabrands Content Studio, USA Joshua Burke | Global Head of Music & Culture Marketing, The Coca-Cola Company, Global Maiya Kinoshita | Creative Director, TBWA\Media Arts Lab Tokyo, Japan Matthieu Elkaim | President and Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy Paris, France Rajika Mittra | Managing Partner, Havas Play, India Sascha Kuntze | Chief Creative Officer, BBH Asia Pacific, Singapore Valentina Hoyos | Marketing Lead, Spotify, LATAM Warangrat Rattanabumrung | Creative Director, SOUR Bangkok, Thailand.

Experience Track

Brand Experience & Activation Lions: Abu Sayed Mohammad Nurur Rahman | Executive Creative Director, Grey Dhaka, Bangladesh Bartosz Jeglejewski | Creative Director, McCann, Poland Beryl Agyekum Ayaaba | CEO, EchoHouse Africa, Ghana Brenda Jácome | Creative Director, DDB, Colombia Camilo Guanes | Founder – Chief Creative Officer, Oniria\TBWA, Paraguay Carolina Pinheiro | CEO, Inbrax, Chile Dare Oyegbola | Head Agency Operations at Havas Play Nigeria and Ghana, Havas, Nigeria and Ghana Emma Robbins | National Executive Creative Director, M+C Saatchi, Australia Facundo Paglia | Chief Creative Officer, Lopito Ileana & Howie, Puerto Rico Firas Ghannam | Executive Creative Director, VML, Saudi Arabia Hang Nguyen Thi Thu | Business Unit Director, Unilever, Vietnam Jimena Archundia | Country Manager, VaynerMedia, LATAM Joanne Tong | Managing Director, IPG Mediabrands, Hong Kong SAR John Bergdahl | Head of Creative, Forsman & Bodenfors, Sweden Jordan Cuddy | Executive VP, Global Head of Brand Experience, Monks, Global José Figueroa | Chief Creative Officer, Grativi BBDO, Guatemala Kai Heuser | Executive Creative Director, AKQA, Germany Kevin Mulroy | Partner and Executive Creative Director, Mischief, USA Leah Meranus | CEO, dentsu X, North America Motonori Sugiyama | Executive Creative Director, Droga5 Tokyo, part of Accenture Song, Japan; Nathaël Duboc | CEO, Dentsu Creative, France Neville Shah | Chief Creative Officer, FCB Kinnect, India ;Regan Grafton | Chief Creative Tinker, Thinkerbell Aotearoa, Aotearoa New Zealand; Robert Thompson | Head of Marketing and Communication, Sanlam Investments, Global; Rona Yakobi | Owner and VP Creative, Rona & Ido, Israel; Sarah Berro | Head of Creative, Vice Media, MEA Viktor Jacobsson | Creative Director, Uber, the Netherlands; Viviane Duarte | CEO, Plano | Brands & Purposal, Brazil and Yuan Chuang | Creative Director, Leo, Taiwan.

Health Track

Health & Wellness Lions: Aleisia Gibson Wright | Founder and President, GW Health Public Relations, USA; Alex Frias | Executive VP, Global Marketing, Steve Madden, Global; Cheryl Horsfall | Executive Creative Director, adam&eveDDB, USA; Curtis Westman | VP, Associate Creative Director, AREA 23, an IPG Health Company, Canada; Luciana Olivares | CEO, Boost Brand Accelerator, Peru; Maiko Banno | General Manager in Healthcare PR, OZMA PR Inc., Japan; Mark Verhagen | Executive Creative Director, VML, Indonesia; Melle Hock | US Chief Strategy Officer, Global Strategy Lead, Unilever, Edelman, Global; Michael Duffy | Brand & Innovation Head, AMEA Region, Opella Consumer Healthcare, AMEA Mike Brightley | Creative Director, Langland, Global; Raluca Kovacs | Chief Strategy Officer and Founder, Better, Romania and Rifah Qadri | Executive Director Marketing & Corporate Communications, easypaisa digital bank, Pakistan; Thomas Amoedo | Managing Director, Landia, Mexico.

Strategy Track

Creative Strategy Lions: Arun Iyer, Co-Founder and Partner, Spring Marketing Capital, India; Catherine Bannister, Chief Strategy Officer, TBWA RAAD, MENA; Ela Gökkan Savci | CEO, MullenLowe; Turkey Joseph Temitope | Director, Brand Strategy, Dentsu Creative, Nigeria; Mariam Asmar | VP, Brand and Strategic Consulting, Braze, USA; Sbusiso Kumalo | Group Chief Marketing Officer, African Bank, South Africa; Seth Gaffney | Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, PREACHER, the Netherlands; Sony Nichani | CEO, Publicis Groupe, Indonesia Thais; Souza Nicolau | Marketing Director, Nomad, Brazil.