Bob Isherwood

Bob Isherwood is an Australian businessman, global advertising creative leader, and the co-founder of ONE School.

Education
Isherwood attended RMIT to study Advertising Art, thanks to the intervention of Victor Greenhalgh – the head of department. Isherwood established the Victor Greenhalgh scholarship programme for underprivileged students at RMIT.

Career
Isherwood was appointed Worldwide Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi in 1996, a position he held until he resigned in 2008. During that period the Network won almost 8,000 significant creative awards. Isherwood also established and presented the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the annual Cannes International Advertising Festival. In 2009 Isherwood was the Creative Chairman for the UN/IAA Climate Change Initiative. www.Hopenhagen.org

Isherwood is currently a founding partner of Dialog Health, and director of Creative Development for The One Club for Creativity. In 2019, he co-founded The ONE School, a free online portfolio program for black creatives with schools based in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and the UK.

Isherwood won Australia’s first Gold Lion award for Cinema at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. He has also won a British Design and Art Direction gold award (Black Pencil) for Advertising. He was named Australia’s Leading Creative Director and received the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award. and has been inducted into the Clio Hall of Fame. He is also a member of RMIT’s Acclaimed Alumni. And received the first ever Honorary Doctorate in Communications from RMIT in 2007. He was inducted into the Australian Writers and Art Directors Hall of Fame in August 2009.

Appointments

 * President, Film & Press & Poster Juries at Cannes International Festival of Creativity
 * Chairman of Executive TV & Radio Jury, Clio awards
 * Participant in ‘2020’ initiative of Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.
 * Selection Panel Member, Advance Global Australian Awards 2012-2014.
 * Dean of the Cannes Young Creative Academy,
 * Adjunct Professor of Managerial Studies at Vanderbilt University.