Jo Wallace

Jo Wallace, Global Executive Creative Director, Media.Monks

Jo is a dynamic creative leader with over 20 years’ experience and an ambition to affect positive change through ideas that achieve real impact in the real world. This vision has seen her deliver disruptive campaigns, curate provocative exhibitions, and create popular events on the edges of advertising.

In recent times she’s won a plethora of awards, including a gold Cannes Lion. Alongside multiple awards for her work, she’s proudly collected various accolades including Campaign & Creative Equals ‘30 Creative Trailblazers’.

She is regularly invited to join and chair international creative award jury’s such as One Show, Creative Circle, and D&AD and often speaks at events both inside and outside of the industry.

On the periphery of advertising, she’s proactively curated two large, thought-provoking exhibitions: There’s a Good Girl and There’s a Good Immigrant. Each gained wide-reaching attention and PR coverage.

Jo’s the founder and host of the popular, non-profit event, Good Girls Eat Dinner which she started in 2015. The mission is simple: provide visible, inspiring, female role-models across the creative industries and beyond. It has over 7,000 Instagram followers and feedback suggests it’s the best dinner party you’ll ever go to.