NEWS7 June 2022

AA appoints new chair

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UK – Annette King, chief executive at Publicis Groupe UK, has been named chair of the Advertising Association (AA), replacing Philippa Brown.

Annette King

King (pictured) has been appointed for a three-year term, and will lead a focus on talent, public trust, inclusion, climate change and key lobbying issues for the advertising industry.

Brown left her role as AA chair at the end of her three-year term, having overseen initiatives such as Ad Net Zero and the All In Action Plan, as well as the AA’s response to Covid-19.

King has been chief executive at Publicis Groupe UK since 2018, where as well as streamlining the company’s structure and increasing growth, King introduced flexible-working, a company-wide mental health programme, a menopause policy, and a set of family-friendly policies and disability and trans inclusion policies.

In her role as chair, King will be to help support the strategic direction and delivery of the AA’s work and its wider remit, reporting to its 14-strong board on behalf of its tri-partite industry membership.

Stephen Woodford, chief executive at the Advertising Association, said: “Annette is one of the most impressive voices in UK advertising today and we are delighted to welcome her to the AA’s distinguished board.

“She brings vast experience and strong work on creating a more inclusive workplace, an area especially relevant to us as we launch the next three actions of the All In Action Plan as well as announce our first wave of All In Champion organisations.

“Thanks must also go to Philippa Brown for her excellent work steering the industry through the pandemic and its extraordinary recovery.”

@RESEARCH LIVE

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