Miles Young was educated at Bedford School and New College, Oxford before beginning a career in advertising. Miles joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1983 and was appointed to the Board of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in London in 1986 and Client Services Director in 1988. In February 1990, he became Managing Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct in London. He was a Regional Director of Ogilvy & Mather Direct Europe from 1990 until he moved to Hong Kong to take up the position of Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific in 1995 and represent WPP’s corporate interests in Asia. He assumed the position of CEO of Ogilvy & Mather worldwide in January 2009 and is based in New York.
Miles is cofounder of the Ogilvy-Tsinghua Program for Public Branding, a joint venture with Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua School of Journalism. He is also an Economic Consultant to the Jiangsu, China Provincial Government and a visiting Professor at Xiamen University. Miles is a member of the Board of the US Pakistan Business Council in Washington, D.C. and the Prime Minister of Turkey's Investment Advisory Council. In addition, he is a member of the Board of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.