David Jones

Global CEO Havas &  CO-FOUNDER One Young World

Honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, David Jones has distinguished himself as an industry visionary and proponent of corporate responsibility and social change. He is the youngest global network CEO in the history of advertising, heading both Havas Worldwide, and is the only British CEO of a French publicly traded company. He was the driving force behind Kofi Annan’s TckTckTck Campaign for Climate Justice, one of the most successful cause campaigns in history with 18 million people signing up as 'climate allies'. He also worked closely with David Cameron and the U.K. Conservative Party from 2007 up to and including Cameron’s appointment as prime minister in 2010.

David is a member of the Facebook Client Council. He was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement in 2005, was voted one of the two top executives of the decade by readers of Adweek, was nominated as one of CR Magazine’s 2011 Responsible CEOs of the Year, and was named on the "40 Under 40" lists of both Crain's New York Business and Advertising Age.

David is the author of the best-selling book Who Cares Wins: Why Good Business is Better Business, published in December 2011 by Pearson/FT Publishing.

On behalf of the Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton congratulates David Jones for creating One Young World.