Famous adman Prasoon Joshi is amongst the nine eminent Indian personalities from media, who have been selected on various juries of ‘Cannes Lions 2008’. The coveted global advertising festival will be held in the month of June in the cultural city of southern France. The McCann India executive chairman and McCann Asia Pacific regional executive creative director, Prasoon Joshi is the most known face of India from the advertising world to chair the Outdoors Lions jury.

 

Few of the eight other Indians on the Cannes Lions 2008 jury are Bates David, Enterprise chairman and Bates Asia Pacific regional ECD, Sonal Dabral (on the Film jury) and Grey India national creative director Priti Nair is on the Press jury. Lodestor Universal CEO Sahshi Sinha is on the media lions panel as a jury member. Priti Nair, who has made it for the first time to be on the jury of Cannes Lions 2008, remarked that the increased representation of the Indian advertisement industry at Cannes is a good beginning and shows that good work is being recognized at the international level.