Ata has worked in marketing, PR and communications for ten years across a range of industries. He joined Imperial in the central marketing team in September 2020. He is passionate about the power of mentoring, having completed four mentoring schemes as a mentee while he completed his Master’s degree in PR. Since 2020, he has been a mentor to graduates and junior professionals in the PR and communications industry, on one of the schemes he was previously a mentee. This year, he joined the pilot reverse race in PR mentoring scheme led by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Taylor Bennett Foundation, where he mentored senior PR professionals on EDI in the industry.