NEW YORK, USA // Considered by Advertising Age “one of the world’s most influential people in the communications business,” Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather, made history by leading the agency to win Network of the Year at Cannes four times in a row in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Khai studied in London at St. Martins and then the Royal College of Art where he took an MA in film. After stints at Leo Burnett London and Chicago, and Batey Ads, Khai joined Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific in 2000 as Regional Creative Director and Co-Chairman.

While there, he was named Campaign Brief Asia’s “Creative Director of the Year” for seven straight years, an unprecedented honor that led to his 2008 induction into the Campaign Brief Hall of Fame.

Khai is a member of the Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Board and Executive Committee and is Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather’s Worldwide Creative Council. He also serves on the board of directors at Miami Ad School, Berlin School of Creative Leadership and Future of Storytelling New York. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Khai was a 2010 panelist at the World Economic Forum.

Khai has worked with some of the world’s greatest brands including American Express, Cadbury’s, Coca-Cola, H. J. Heinz, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Mercedes-Benz, McDonald’s, Phillips, The Economist, Toyota, and Unilever Dove.

After a lifetime of fighting fires (and starting a few too) Khai now lives in a 19th Century firehouse in New York City, a building that was once home to another creative when he first arrived in the city: Andy Warhol.