JWT imports Hugh Duthie.(JWT London)(Brief article)

London agency brings in head of planning from TBWA\Chiat\Day New York.

JWT has yet again reached across the Atlantic to fill a vacant senior management role.

The agency has hired Hugh Duthie, the chief strategic officer at TBWA\Chiat\Day New York, to be its head of planning.

The Canadian-born planner will take over the role within the next two months. He will work closely with the agency's executive creative director, Nick Bell, and its chief executive, Alison Burns, who was also recently recruited from New York.

Duthie, who has never worked in the UK before, has a brief to rebuild the planning department, contribute to the creative product …