First Cannes Lions PR jury revealed

The PR category, which launches this year, will honour the creative use of reputation management by the building and preservation of trust and understanding between individuals, businesses or organisations and their publics. Lord Tim Bell, chairman of Chime Communications, and an authority on PR with a long and distinguished career, will lead the first PR Lions jury.

The PR Lions Jury:

• UK: Lord Tim Bell, chairman, Chime Communications - jury president
  
• Argentina: Verónica Cheja, CEO and founder, Urban PR
  
• Australia: Naomi Parry, director, Black Communications
  
• Brazil: Andrew Greenlees, partner and VP, Grupo CDN
  
• France: Jean-Pierre Beaudoin, MD, Groupe i&e
  
• Germany: Astrid von Rudloff, CEO, Weber Shandwick Germany
  
• India: Prema Sagar, principal and founder, Genesis Burson-Marsteller
  
• Italy: Rossella Sobrero, president, Koinètica
  
• Romania: Eliza Rogalski, managing partner, Rogalski Grigoriu Public Relations
  
• Singapore: Jimmy Tay, CEO South-east Asia, Hill & Knowlton
  
• Spain: Teresa García, partner and CEO, Ketchum
  
• Sweden: Björn Mellstrand, MD, JMW Communication
  
• UK: Penny Furniss, creative director, Sputnik Communications
  
• US: Nancy Seliger, president, Eastern Region and senior partner, Fleishman-Hillard
  
• US: Carol Cone, chairman and founder, Cone
  
• Global: MaryLee Sachs, US chairman and worldwide director of Marketing Comms, Hill & Knowlton

Judging will take place in Cannes during the festival week, with the entries being judged and rewarded for strategy, creativity and originality, execution and results. The first PR Lions will be given out on Monday, 22 June 2009.

For more info, go to www.canneslions.com.