Piyush Pandey

Chief Creative Officer, Worldwide,
Ogilvy

Piyush Pandey is Chief Creative Officer, Worldwide since 1st of January 2019. He took over the job as Executive Chairman and National Creative Director of Ogilvy India in 2004. He joined Ogilvy in August 1982 as an Account Executive and switched to the Creative department in 1987.

He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Advertising Agencies Association of India in 2010, the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, the ‘Padma Shri’ (Indian National Civilian Award) in 2016 and the Lion of St. Mark, alongwith his brother Prasoon Pandey at Cannes in June 2018.

He published his first book ‘Pandeymonium’, a Number 1 best seller on his life and times in advertising.

Ogilvy India has been India’s Number 1 creative agency for over two decades and Piyush has been named as the Economic Times’ Most Influential Person fourteen years in a row.

Piyush is an ex-cricketer and has been personally involved in the launch of the Indian Premier League, the Pro Kabaddi League and the Indian Super League.

Ogilvy was the first advertising job that he got and that’s where he continues to be.