Khai Meng Tham

Khai Meng Tham
Co-Chairman and Executive Regional Creative Director - Asia Pacific

Khai Meng Tham is Co-Chairman and Executive Regional Creative Director for Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific.

Khai started his advertising career in London and joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1999. Five years later, he was elected to the Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Board.

Under Khai’s leadership, Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific rose through the rankings and was awarded the most creative agency network in the region for four consecutive years by Campaign Brief Asia.

Campaign Brief Asia also named Khai the Number One Creative Director in Asia for four years in a row; AdAge Global listed him as one of the ‘‘100 most influential people in the communication business’’; recently Khai won Media magazine’s Regional Agency Head of the Year 2005.

Khai has won numerous Gold awards at international advertising award shows including Cannes, Clio, The One Show and Communication Arts. He was also Chairman of the Clio Jury in 2005.

He is author of The Ugly Duckling - a cautionary tale of creativity, now translated into Korean, Japanese and Mandarin.

Khai is a key member of various Singapore government boards that shape the strategic development of the country. This year, Khai, together with a few luminaries from the advertising fraternity, was elected to the teaching faculty of the Executive MBA programme offered by Michael Conrad’s Berlin School, Steinbeis University Berlin.

Khai holds a BA (1st Class) from Central St Martin's, UK, and a MA (summa cum laude) in film and History of Art from the Royal College of Art, UK.