TBWA chairman Jean-Marie Dru on philanthropy in semi-retirement

06/12/19 • 33 min

Jean-Marie Dru, chairman of TBWA Worldwide, talks about the work he does with the French Academy of Medicine Foundation and UNICEF France, where he is president. “What’s the most important thing for the four of us in this room? Health. And then what’s the most important thing for the future of everybody? Our children.” He also talks about his love of classic films and the French rappers and poets called “slammers,” and he weighs in on the creative benefits of jetlag, Eminem's vocabulary and his eventual retirement from agency life.

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