Anna MacLeod, IBD's first woman President, and a legend of the industry.

Anna MacGillivray Macleod (15 May 1917 – 13 August 2004) was a Scottish biochemist and an authority on brewing and distilling. She edited the Journal of the Institute of Brewing from 1964 to 1976 and was elected as the first female President of the IBD in 1970. Anna was a professor at Herior-Watt University and  was the world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry. Read her Horace Brown Memorial Lecture - Rerum Cognoscere Causas here.