Robin Weeks, the Regional creative director of Ogilvy Group in Central and Eastern Europe, will mete out rewards at the 9-th Kyiv International Advertising Festival as the Head of the jury.

Robin Weeks has been in the advertising business for over 20 years. He began his career as a copywriter at BurkittWeinrechBryant and spent 16 years at London advertising agencies Leo Burnett, WCRS, Springer and Jacoby and BurkittWeinrechBryant. At BurkittWeinrechBryant Robin began his career as a copywriter.

Robin worked as Creative director at J.Walter Thompson in Warsaw and Executive director at D'Arcy in Detroit. He spent several years as an International creative director in Europe and the US. Currently, he is the Regional creative director at Ogilvy Group in Central and Eastern Europe, where he overviews all significant projects in the region.

Robin also lectures at Warsaw School of Advertising and conducts seminars in D&AD, London (educational noncommercial organization for designers and creators).

Robin Weeks lead numerous international campaigns, such as European launch of Sega Megadrive game console, Fiat Siecento launch, global corporate campaign for Daimler Chrysler and projects for CIWF, Mercedes, McVities, Johnny Walker, Tanqueray and Lot Airlines.

Robin won his first prize at the British Television Awards contest in 1987. Since then he received numerous awards at Creative Circle, Campaign Press, IPA Effectiveness, Friends of the Earth, the Cannes festival and other international festivals. In 2007, Robin was on the jury of  advertising festivals: Croatian "Festo" and Central Europian "Crystal Awards".

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