‘An agency should be an angst-free zone’ – Jan Leube

Publicis’ new regional executive creative director Jan Leube talks whips, arrows and tears with Eleanor Dickinson

Jan Leube and I are comparing our United Arab Emirates identity cards. Given both of us have been in Dubai less than two months, our mugshot-stamped keys to expat life still remain something of a novelty. As the new regional executive creative director for the Middle East and North Africa at Publicis, Leube already has a lot to readjust to, not least the change in climate from his former Berlin home. It is perhaps just as well he is taking it one day at a time.
“I hate all this talk about formulating big goals and big battle cries,” he replies when asked about his visio