Governance & Leadership
The people behind the institution.
Ten executives with a combined three hundred and eleven years of experience, and an extremely long reading list.
Executive leadership
The Council and the Executive Office
Each biography has been reviewed by the individual concerned and, on one occasion, by the individual’s biographer.
Lord Evander Pennington-Vass
Chairman, International Wine Excellence Council
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Marguerite Delacroix-Oyelaran
Chief Executive Officer
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Dr. Anselm Voskuijlen
Global Director of Wine Intelligence
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Prof. Thessaly Quarrington-Bell
Chief Oenological Strategy Officer
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Baptiste Ormsby-Kaczmarek
Executive Director of International Standards
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Dr. Ines Valdespino-Marlowe
Director of Consumer Palate Research
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Hartley Fenwick-Adeyemi
Chief Institutional Reputation Officer
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Madame Oriana Tolliver-Sjöberg
Global Head of Wine Assessment
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Caspian Brightwater-Ndlovu
Director of Strategic Vineyard Relations
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Dr. Philippa Strathmore-Okonkwo-Lund
Chief Innovation and Sensory Development Officer
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How the Institution is governed
The International Wine Excellence Council
The Council is the Institution’s supreme deliberative body. It meets four times a year, deliberates at length and has never been known to adjourn early.
The Executive Office
The Executive Office, under the Chief Executive, administers the Institution’s divisions, indices and quarterly reviews, and reconciles them with one another.
The Standards Review Panel
The Panel reviews all Institution provisions annually and certifies that they remain, on balance, provisions.