Todd Sampson is the co-creator of Earth Hour and the former CEO of Leo Burnett. Todd is an adventurer, award-winning documentary-maker, television presenter and businessman. Todd is one of the most influential executives in Australia and has won CEO of the Year twice.

The Financial Review and News Limited ranked Todd as one of the most influential executives in Australia. He is the former national CEO of Leo Burnett and currently sits on the Board of Directors of both Fairfax and Qantas. He is also the co-creator of the Earth Hour initiative, one of the largest environmental movements in history reaching over 1 billion people in 5500 cities worldwide. That same year Earth Hour was awarded B&T’s Creative Campaign of the Year in Australia and in 2009 it became the biggest environment movement in history with over one billion participants.

Todd started his television career on the critically acclaimed ABC series GRUEN which is still one of the most popular shows on television today. He is now the writer, producer and host of a number of international documentaries including Discovery Channel’s REDESIGN MY BRAIN which won Documentary of the Year, BODYHACK which has been nominated for Best Factual Series and Most Outstanding Documentary of the Year and more recently LIFE ON THE LINE. One reviewer colourfully captured Todd’s unique approach, “If Bear Grylls, Louis Theroux and Brian Cox had a love child together, it would be Todd Sampson.”

Todd has also climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.