Emily Harlock, Head of Strategy – AMV BBDO

Emily is a Board Account Planner at AMV BBDO, leading the planning on Camelot and Cancer Research UK. She joined AMV in 2007 initially working on the Mars brands and has since worked on Birds Eye, Mars and Quaker Oats. Emily was also part of the winning pitch teams for Twinings and a government account, Child Maintenance Options.

During her time at AMV BBDO she has been nominated as a Woman of the Future and been awarded a place on the BBDO University training programme for the best planners in the network. Emily is also responsible for managing the junior planners in the department.

Previously Emily worked at Ogilvy, joining on the Graduate Fellowship Programme in 2004.

During her time with the company she worked in Ogilvy PR and Ogilvy One (working on Toblerone, Malaysia Airlines, First Great Western and Cancer Research UK) and went on to become a Junior Planner in Ogilvy and Mather where she worked on the iconic Dove ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’ campaign, winning a Euro Effie for a Dove deodorant campaign.