About me

Kate Stanners is Chairwoman and Global Chief Creative Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi. Having been at Saatchi & Saatchi for 20 years she has been pivotal in transforming the agency. By harnessing the unreasonable power of creativity, she has driven the agency's spirit of Nothing Is Impossible to deliver impossible outcomes and revolutionise clients' businesses.

Based at Saatchi & Saatchi's London headquarters, Kate, oversees Saatchi & Saatchi's creative output, the creative talent of the network, and global clients that include Beiersdorf, Visa, UBS, and Deutsche Telekom to name a few.

Prior to Saatchi, Kate set up communications company, Boy meets Girl, and before that was a Founding Partner of the groundbreaking agency, St Lukes in 1995 - famous for its revolutionary working practices, as well as progressive work for clients such as Ikea, Eurostar, BBC, Boots, Midland Bank, Sky television, and many government projects.

Kate studied Art and Design and originally wanted to pursue her passion for fashion and textiles, but deviated into advertising as an art director. She began her career working for the inspirational Dave Trott at his agency GGT, where he taught her how to plan and think, which resulted in many award winning campaigns for Cadbury, Nurofen and Holstein Pils to name a few.

Recently Kate was Jury President for Film at Cannes Lions 2025 She has been recognised as one of AdAge's 'Women to Watch', she also sits on the council of the V&A museum and is a Vice President of D&AD. She is also a member of WACL, an association for the most influential woman in the UK Communications industry.

Kate also sits on the creative Council for Ab inBev & Kraft Heinz.

Kate is inspired by the people she works with daily, who keep her curious and learning. She lives in London with her son Otto, husband David, and dog Dino.