Andy Nairn

Co-founder, Lucky Generals

Andy stumbled into advertising by chance, after graduating from Edinburgh University with a First in Law. Twenty years later, Campaign Magazine has named him the Number 1 planner in the UK and one of the top 10 in the world. He’s won more IPA Effectiveness Awards than any other planner, including the 2005, 2007 and 2010 Grand Prix. This resulted in the IPA making him a Fellow in 2010 and naming him one of the inaugural members of their Effectiveness Hall of Fame, in 2013.

After creating impactful work at AMV BBDO, RKCR/Y&R, Goodby Silverstein and MCBD, he’s eternally grateful that he didn’t opt for life in a wig. Although with the ravages of time, this might now come in handy.


This month Andy Nairn, Founder of Lucky Generals, launches his first book. Go Luck Yourself contains “40 ways for you
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