It’s mid-afternoon and Chris Macdonald, the chairman and CEO of McCann, is enjoying his post-pandemic freedom. “You can imagine we’re all like, ‘ok, we’ll get back out there, go see people, talk to them about their business, talk to the clients, look at the work’,” he says. “I haven’t been in the Middle East for a while and it’s always good to connect to the market.”
On a short but important trip to Dubai, Macdonald, who took on the role of chairman and CEO in January last year, has been busy …