Deadline: December 5, 2025

Applications are open for the Jodi Harris Scholarship 2026. They are accepting 10 emerging marketing leaders back into the Scholarship this year alongside the team at AB InBev. Offering a fully-funded, curated programme – including exclusive sessions with industry thought leaders and the AB InBev executive marketing team, and VIP access to Festival content and the Awards shows.

About Jodi Harris


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Jodi Harris was a visionary and empathetic leader whose influence shaped not only the organizations she served, but the broader marketing industry. At AB InBev, she played a defining role in creating the Marketing Culture & Capabilities function, a pioneering initiative that elevated the value of creative effectiveness, professional growth, and community across the global organization. Jodi championed creativity —not just within AB InBev, but across the wider marketing community.

She was deeply committed to opening doors for talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that personal growth and opportunity were at the heart of her leadership. The Jodi Harris Scholarship keeps this legacy alive for high potential client-side marketers whose own legacies are in the making.

Benefits

  • If you’re selected for the Jodi Harris Scholarship, you’ll get a fully funded trip to the Cannes Lions Festival, including accommodation, travel and allowance.
  • You’ll also get a Brand Marketers Festival Pass, which will give you access to advantages of the Gold Pass, a customised Festival learning programme, possibilities for collaboration and private sessions designed specifically for senior marketers.

Eligibility

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  • They welcome applications from big dreamers who see creativity as a means to achieve them.
  • You must be born between 26 June 1989 and 22 June 1995 and work in a role for a client marketer at Manager or Senior Manager level.
  • If you possess a natural curiosity, a love of marketing and creativity and aspire to become a Senior Marketing Leader, Vice President, or CMO, then they would love to hear from you.

Application

Every application is judged on its own merits through a rigorous three-stage process. First, applications are reviewed and shortlisted by a jury of Senior Marketeers at AB InBev.

They then invite the shortlisted applicants to a telephone interview with the LIONS Jodi Harris team. The final decision is based on the outcome of these interviews, as well as the original application.

Click here to apply


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For more information, visit Jodi Harris Scholarship.

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