Dame Annette King dies at 57

Former Accenture Song, Publicis and Oglivy leader stepped back from her executive career in 2025.

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Dame Annette King, the former global lead of Accenture Song's marketing practice and chief executive of Publicis Groupe in the UK, has died aged 57.

King, who joined Accenture Song in 2023 after six years at Publicis Groupe UK, stepped down from her executive career in February last year after a health experience. She continued to serve as a non-executive director of Channel 4.

She became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours in June 2023 for services to advertising and the creative industries. She was chair of the Advertising Association from 2022.

When King was made a dame in 2023, she said: “I’ve been fortunate to forge a career alongside the 2.3 million wonderfully talented people who make the creative industries in this country the world-leading, culture-defining economic success story that they are, and as a working-class girl from Swindon who found her place in the advertising sector of the creative industries, I........

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