Neil Christie
Neil Christie, director of growth markets at Wieden & Kennedy, is departing the creative network after 17 years.
After a period of self-reflection during the Covid pandemic, Christie is leaving the advertising industry to study literature.
Managing director of Wieden & Kennedy London from 2004 to 2017, Christie established the agency – alongside long-time, and also departing, executive creative director Tony Davidson – as one of the most respected creative shops in the UK, producing work for brands like Arla Cravendale, Honda and Nike.
Christie, who will leave the agency in June, said: “I feel extraordinarily lucky and grateful to have found a home at a place where I’ve been able to work with brilliant people, to make good friends and to be myself. And now looking forward to something completely different, studying literature at King's College London.”