Alannah Weston

Alannah Elizabeth Weston (born January 8, 1972) is an Irish-Canadian of the Selfridges Group. She is a member of the Weston family and serves as a director of the family's holding company, Wittington Investments.

Background Weston was born in Dublin, Ireland, on January 8, 1972. She is the elder child of Galen Weston and his wife, Hilary. She has one sibling, younger brother Galen Weston Jr. She is a citizen of both Ireland and Canada.

Career Weston attended Havergal College in Toronto and studied English literature at Merton College, Oxford. After graduation, she worked as a journalist at The Daily Telegraph, Tatler, and British Vogue. She left journalism in 1999 to work for Rose Marie Bravo at luxury fashion brand Burberry, where she was head of press. In 2001, Weston left Burberry to establish her own design agency, Zephyr Projects.

In August 2022, Weston stepped down as chairman of Selfridges Group upon the sale of the business to Thai conglomerate Central Group and Austria's Signa Holding.

Philanthropy From 2012 to 2017, Weston was a director of the Blue Marine Foundation, a British marine conservation charity. She led the Selfridges Group Foundation and is a trustee of the Garfield Weston Foundation. and she is also a trustee of the Reta Lila Howard Foundation, which is named after her paternal grandmother. She is a director of the Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation alongside her brother.