Gillian Bristol is a diplomat from Grenada, serving as ambassador to the United States and Mexico for the small island nation.
[2] Her father Carol is a prominent Grenadian attorney who also served as Chief Justice.
[1][3] She attended St. Joseph's Convent High School in Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago, and earned honors degrees in languages (BA) and law (LLB) from the University of the West Indies in Cave Hill, Barbados in 1988.
[5] In 2009, Bristol was appointed by Prime Minister Tillman Thomas as the country's ambassador to the United States, where she headed Grenada's Mission in Washington, DC.
[8] In August 2016, Bristol joined the newly established Office for Global Affairs at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, and was appointed director of the Latin American and Caribbean Centre (LACC).