Results 2024

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30 under 30

Alexis King

Account Director - Grayling

What is your proudest professional achievement? Alongside being shortlisted for this award, I would say helping to secure a commitment from the Labour Party in a recent policy paper and even a mention by name for our client. In your view, how can PR employers better retain talent? If I had to pick three key things, it would be making s...

Alydia Noble

Account Director - M&C Saatchi World Services

What is your proudest professional achievement? For journalists and PRs alike, there is nothing more rewarding than playing a part in the world’s biggest stories (or nailing high-stake interviews). Because M&C Saatchi World Services specialise in government and global issues, such opportunities come in spades, and every project makes m...

Amber Allen

Account Director - Madano

What is your proudest professional achievement? Early on in my career, I was involved in the development of a medical education programme on Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's holds huge personal significance to me, so this became a real passion project where I was determined to make it the best it could be. This was also a project with ...

Amy Moore

Account Director, Influence - Weber Shandwick

What is your proudest professional achievement? Might sound obvious, but making the 30 under 30 list is a huge career highlight. I've been working in the industry for just under six years and in that time I've delivered award-winning campaigns and had the opportunity to work with youth leaders in Tanzania to launch sustainable developm...

Anna Penson

Associate Director - Citypress

What is your proudest professional achievement? Aside from the obvious answer of PRWeek 30 Under 30, I'd have to say stepping up to the challenge of Covid-19. We'll all remember it for many things, but for me, I look back on it as a real turning point in my career. I'd worked in PR for three years at this point and I was still fairly n...

Camila Holden Ayala

Senior Account Manager - Broadcast Revolution

What is your proudest professional achievement?I care about trying to inspire young people from diverse backgrounds to join the industry, and so started my own community driven platform, Gals That Chat in 2022. Receiving thank you messages from young girls who I've helped to secure work experience, hearing they are flourishing with men...

Connor Moonan

Vice President - Digital Health at Weber Shandwick

What is your proudest professional achievement? Aside from this incredible honour, completing an in-house secondment at one of my long-term clients, Novartis, was very rewarding. In just a few months, we launched an integrated haematology awareness campaign featuring an interactive installation here in London. It was an opportunity tha...

Deepak Kumar

Senior Press Officer - Transport for London

What is your proudest professional achievement? The Elizabeth line launch campaign. I grew up in Forest Gate acutely aware of how the Elizabeth line could help transform the lives of people from underserved communities across the East and West of London. Working on an award-winning campaign that turned the long-awaited opening into a m...

Elissa Cregan

External Affairs Officer - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

In your view, how can PR employers better retain talent?To retain talent, any employers should focus on fostering a positive work culture, providing growth opportunities, offering competitive compensation and benefits, and promoting work-life balance. Regular feedback and recognition also play a crucial role in retaining top talent. If...

Ellie Ball

Media Manager, Virgin Group - Virgin

What is your proudest professional achievement? I am so lucky to lead on our Dyslexic Thinking Campaigns at Virgin, working with the incredible team at Made By Dyslexia, Richard, and our Virgin companies to reframe Dyslexic Thinking as a valuable workplace skill. We've collaborated with some incredible partners including LinkedIn and D...

Joshua Callaghan

Senior Account Executive - Raptor PR

If you could change any one thing about the comms industry, what would it be?I'd love for more employers and applicants to explore degree apprenticeships. The UK Government offers huge amounts of funding for people such as myself to earn a fully-fledged degree with no tuition fees to pay - while earning a salary in the process! When I ...

Lili Katona

Research Manager - H/Advisors Cicero

What is your proudest professional achievement? Making it onto the PR Week 30 Under 30 List is my proudest professional achievement‚ especially knowing that my colleagues who nominated me felt I deserved this recognition. It has always been hugely important to me to ensure that my coworkers feel they can trust and rely on me. Something...

Lilley Bridges

Senior Communications Officer - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

What is your proudest professional achievement? In December last year, I led on a high-profile stakeholder event to mark 35 years of HIV care at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust. This included facilitating service user DJ Fat Tony to play and speak, as well coordinating AV, exhibition style artwork, pulling together a ...

Maryam Chowdhury

Senior Client Executive - Milk & Honey PR

What is the motto you live by? As cheesy as it sounds - Be aggressively, unapologetically yourself to unlock the happiest, most successful version of yourself. Your diversity and difference is your power. Some of the most creative, successful work has D&I embedded into its bones. They need people like us. Using ethnic diversity as just...

Natalie Phillips

Assistant PR & Social Media Manager - Marks and Spencer

What is your proudest professional achievement?(Other than this of course), has got to be the success of M&S Food's 2024 Easter campaign which I led across PR and social. As well as managing the PR, including various pun filled press releases which landed 137 media articles, I also implemented a seeding strategy where I gifted 25 influ...

Sophie Figueiredo

Account Manager - PLMR Healthcomms

What is your proudest professional achievement? My proudest professional achievement is also one which is deeply personal to me. Despite impacting 51% of the population, women's health needs, particularly around menstrual wellbeing, have been historically neglected. With an objective to drive prioritisation of menstrual health among po...

Taylor Orford

Junior Creative - Ogilvy

What is your proudest professional achievement? Aside from making it onto this incredible list, I wrote an article last year regarding Gen Z stereotypes and how brands should avoid them in order to connect authentically. Not only was it a joy to get a fair few opinions off my chest, but it landed me a place in WPP's Atticus Journal. I'...

Theresa Bischof

Senior Media & Communications Adviser - Confederation of British Industry (CBI)

In your view, how can PR employers better retain talent? The PR world can be one of intensive pressure and high stakes. That can take a real toll on your wellbeing, your health. So, you have to look after your talent, engaging with colleagues and truly listening to how they can be supported. As Co-Chair of the CBI's Health, Neurodivers...

Hannah George

Principal Advisor Executive Communications - Rio Tinto

What is your proudest professional achievement? I have many professional highlights from my time as a journalist, when I covered major news events including the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and consecutive UK prime ministers. I am glad I have been able to use that experience and journalistic approach to help tell our company's...