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Rana El Khoury is the co-founder of Read The Room Creative Agency. Previously the Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Beirut, she is behind most of the gender equality award winning campaigns coming out from the Arab region. Her work has won more than 150 international awards amongst which 21 Cannes Lions, but also from D&AD, EPICA, EFFIES, CAPLES, LYNX, THE GERETY to name a few. She also served in regional and international juries.. She has dedicated the last years of her career to campaigns that would bring real change on the ground, and many of those she worked on have had a huge impact on the community to real change on institutional levels. Khoury also taught at the American University of Beirut a Creative Writing class for Media and Communication. She also co-founded a social enterprise called “Phenomenal Women” that links women from difficult backgrounds, survivors of domestic violence, trafficking, sexual abuse and discrimination to training opportunities and job prospects.