Kata leads the global aviation team at PA Consulting and has close to 20 years of commercial aviation experience, with a focus on airport and airline strategies, M&A and decarbonization. Kata brings credibility as an aviation industry leader having delivered a wide variety of high value projects, including airline diagnostics, airport business plan forecasts, sustainability road maps and investment advice to global infra funds and private equity.
Working across the aviation ecosystem affords Kata a unique perspective which delivers value to a variety of stakeholders, ranging from policymakers to investors to airlines and airport managements and industry associations. Kata and her colleagues at PA are Bringing Ingenuity to Life and helping to make aviation more agile, more resilient and more sustainable, helping to ensure that benefits are maximised while negative impacts are continuously reduced.
Kata holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, a Diploma in Responsible Tourism from Leeds Becket University and has previously been recognised by Airline Economics Journal as one of the aviation industry’s Top 40 under 40.
