Miles Young - Ogilvy

MILES YOUNG
Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Miles Young was educated at Bedford School and New College, Oxford. His career in advertising has spanned Lintas, Allen Brady & Marsh and Ogilvy & Mather, which he joined in 1983.

Miles was appointed to the Board of O&M Advertising in London in 1986 and Client Services Director in 1988. In February 1990, he became Managing Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct in London. He was a Regional Director of O&M Direct Europe from 1990 to 1995.

From 1994 to 1995, he had the additional responsibility of bedding in and running the IBM account in Europe which had previously been held by some 40 separate agencies. This included setting up a dedicated service hub in Paris for both advertising and direct marketing; and Miles has lectured and written widely on the subject of integrated marketing, a special interest.

In September 1995, he moved to Hong Kong to take up the position of Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Asia/Pacific, and serves on Board and the Executive Committee of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. During this period, Ogilvy & Mather has grown significantly in size and marketshare, and was repeatedly acknowledged as "Agency of the Year" by Media Magazine.

He represented WPP's corporate interests in Asia, in addition to his Ogilvy responsibilities.

Miles is a visiting Professor of Xiamen University. He is also co-founder of the Ogilvy-Tsinghua Programme for Public Branding, a joint venture with Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua School of Journalism.

He assumed the position of CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in January 2009 and is based in New York.