WSET appoints Kirsten Grant Meikle to its Board of Trustees

WSET (the Wine & Spirit Education Trust) has announced that Kirsten Grant Meikle is to join its Board of Trustees, replacing Allen Gibbons as the Worshipful Company of Distillers’ representative.

Gibbons is stepping down this month, having served as a WSET trustee for four years.

Kirsten Grant Meikle has spent more than 20 years in the wine and spirits business. After seven years at Matthew Clark where she began in sales and ended up as Wine Range Controller, she joined William Grant & Sons UK in 2011 as Head of On Premise Strategy, later becoming Director of Prestige. She then moved to the company’s US operation as Commercial Strategy Director and, subsequently, the Regional Manager for the State of Illinois.

The wine and spirits expert is now back in the UK and working for the company in the Procurement team. She is a great champion of women in the spirits industry and, in particular, has made a ‘huge impact’ in helping to shift the perception that whisky is a man’s drink. She holds the WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits.

WSET’s Board of Trustees is chaired by Simon McMurtrie. The other members are Miles Beale, Lulie Halstead, Dan Jago, Jo Locke MW, Jo Thornton and Sukhinder Singh.