Dubai Lynx: Ali Rez wins Advertising Person of the Year 2024

Dubai Lynx: Ali Rez wins Advertising Person of the Year 2024

Ali Rez, Chief Creative Officer at IMPACT BBDO for the MENAP region, has been honoured as Advertising Person of the Year, Outstanding Contribution for 2024 by Dubai Lynx.

It is regarded as one of the festival’s most prestigious awards, and celebrates an individual who has made a significant contribution to MENA’s advertising industry in the previous year.

Philip Thomas, Chairman, Dubai Lynx, said: “We are delighted to honour Ali Rez this year, with such an important accolade.

“He is a true trailblazer for the region and has shown an incredible commitment to boosting the region’s global standing in producing the best creative work.

“We are pleased to recognise the crucial contribution Ali has made and we can’t wait to see what’s next for him.”

Also named Creative Person of the Year three times by Campaign Magazine, Ali Rez is the most awarded creative leader in the Middle East, and currently leads output for the IMPACT

BBDO Group across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan region.

Ali Rez recently took part in a podcast with Campaign Middle EastRez’s creative leadership has seen Impact BBDO become the first MEA agency to be ranked Global Top 10 on both the WARC and World Creative Rankings in the same year, while