MILAN, ITALY // Isabelle Harvie-Watt was born and raised in London. She graduated with a Masters in History from the University of Edinburgh in 1990 and soon after moved to Italy where she has been living for the last 22 years.

Prior to joining Havas, Isabelle worked in the world of fashion and luxury goods for 20 years, leading the global marketing, communications and PR strategies for companies such as Giorgio Armani, Versace and most recently the Tod’s Group.

As CEO and Country Manager of Havas Media Group in Italy since 2011, she oversees all of the Group’s agencies (Havas Media, Arena and Havas Sports & Entertainment) and specialised divisions (DataInsight, Ecselis, Socialyse, Mobext and HD&C) in Italy.

She also founded the LuxHub division in January of 2012, a group of experts offering consultancy services in all areas of marcomms for fashion luxury brands and audiences. Isabelle is now rolling LuxHub out globally across the Group Havas with imminent launches in the UK, Dubai, NY, Paris and Shanghai.  

In June 2012, Isabelle served on the jury at the Cannes Lions for the media category and in 2014 on the jury of The Festival of Global Media.