International Advertising Association (IAA) Leadership Awards - when the tallest leaders in business, marketing, advertising and media  gather to celebrate the very best among them.

Ajay Piramal honoured with the IAA Business Leader of the Year Award and Sam Balsara inducted into the IAA Hall of Fame

Spearheading with a broad vision and a broader smile,IAA President - Ramesh Narayan 
“A unique power-packed event, we have advertisers, media, corporate all to salute excellence. This is very aspirational and inspirational. Committed to taking India to higher ground,true leaders in marketing, advertising and media were celebrated. 

India chapter has been leading from the front to name a few initiatives #WorktoLivetoWork , IAA Mentorship for Women, IndIAA Regional Awards , Reigniting the Artist and Storyteller in you, IAA Olive Crown Awards and for the first time in 80 years we have IAA World Congress  being hosted in Kochi in 2019. 

A panel discussion was moderated by Partho Dasgupta, BARCIndia with eminent panelists –Sanjay Behl, Raymond, Shashi Sinha of IPG MediaBrands and Prathyusha Agarwal, Zeel on television medium being a strong influencer. 

Sharing his learnings from the Bhagwad Gita he mentioned it has the philosophy that can be used to practice on a day to day basis. 

Arun Iyer, Chairman and CCO, Lowe Lintas won the IAA Creative Agency Leader of the Year award.   On the media side the accoladewent to Harish Shriyan, CEO, Omnicom Media Group India. Arnab Goswami, Republic TV, bagged the IAA Media Person of the Year award.
Sukumar Ranganathan, Hindustan Times and Faye D'Souza, Mirror Now were awarded
the IAA Editor of the Year and the IAA TV Anchor of the Year award respectively.

Karan Johar was presented the IAA's Brand Endorser for the Year. 

IAA Leadership Awards 27 July 2018 Media Coverage