ABOUT
Samira Ansari is an international, multi-award-winning creative leader who has worked across Fortune 500 brands globally.
In 2023, she was named Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy New York, the agency’s flagship office. Under her creative leadership, Ogilvy New York ranked No. 3 globally at the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, contributing to Ogilvy being named Cannes’ Network of the Year. That same year, the agency’s work; ‘Michael CeraVe’ and ‘Recycle Me’ won Grand Prixs, with Recycle Me marking Coca-Cola’s first Grand Prix in a decade. The agency’s success also helped Ogilvy achieve No. 1 rankings on WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100 lists, the first time any agency has done so three years in a row.
Prior to Ogilvy, Samira’s work spanned continents and categories, shaping some of the world’s most recognized brands. Her work on Michelob Ultra’s “McEnroe vs. McEnroe” received a 2023 Sports Emmy Award for Best Digital Innovation and won the only Cannes Gold Lion in Innovation in 2022. She was also named to Adweek’s Creative 100 that same year.
Other career highlights include creating Michelob Ultra Courtside with the NBA and Microsoft, launching Mike’s Hard Lemonade in South America, producing a brutally honest campaign for U by Kotex that redefined how feminine care products are marketed, taking Wheat Thins and Pringles to the Super Bowl for the first time and trying to introduce America to San Pellegrino Ciao with Steve Schirripa and Christopher Moltisanti.