Kirsten is a Director at FWB and leads the firm’s public and not-for-profit practice. She supports a broad range of organisations across the public and third sectors to appoint CEOs, senior leadership roles and non-executives as well as conducting board and governance reviews.

Kirsten started her Executive Search career almost ten years ago in the Edinburgh office of a generalist executive search firm, initially as a researcher, then as Head of Research before joining the Executive Chairman’s team as his Chief of Staff. During this time, Kirsten appointed Non-Executive Directors and Senior Executives for a broad range of clients across different sectors and conducted governance reviews on a range of clients. Immediately prior to joining FWB, she led end to end processes internationally to appoint senior executives in the legal function for a specialist boutique search firm based in London.

Kirsten is a Board Member of Business Beats Cancer Edinburgh (part of Cancer Research UK) and the CBI Scotland’s Rising Stars committee.

Kirsten has a first-class LLB and DPLP with distinction from the University of Aberdeen.