Debbie Klein

Debbie became Chief Executive of Engine in the UK in June 2008. Prior to that she had worked at WCRS for eleven years, initially joining as Head of Planning, before becoming Chief Executive of the advertising agency in 2005. One year earlier Debbie was a founding partner in the management buyout of WCRS.
Debbie started her career at AC Nielsen, before joining Saatchi & Saatchi as a Strategic Planner in 1993.
She is the author of Women in Advertising: 10 years on, a study commissioned by the IPA. Many of the recommendations made in her report have since been adopted by the advertising industry. She was named one of the Sunday Times ‘Top 40 under 40 in Media’, and is a past president of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications London), a network of senior women in the media, industry.