JWT has revamped its Dubai operation with the appointment of a new executive creative director and a managing director from Shanghai.
Christian Khoury, formerly creative director of Leo Burnett Dubai, has been named executive creative director, while Dutchman Michael Hofstee moves from his position as managing director of JWT Shanghai to take on the same role in Dubai.
Khoury fills the vacancy left by the departure of Russell Heubach, who departed the agency in May after less than eight months in the job. Heubach, who was previously with Publicis Mojo in Australia, had joined JWT last November in order to take over from the Dubai office’s long-term ECD, Chafic Haddad, who has been tasked wi