Jana Khayat serves on the board of the department store

Department store

A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...

 Fortnum & Mason

Fortnum & Mason

Fortnum & Mason, often shortened to just "Fortnum's" is a department store, situated in central London, with two other branches in Japan. Its headquarters is located at 181 Piccadilly, where it was established in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason...

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The third child of Garry Weston

Garry Weston

Garfield "Garry" Howard Weston, CBE was a Canadian-born businessman in the United Kingdom. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Reta and W. Garfield Weston, owner of the George Weston Limited conglomerate headquartered in Toronto: fourth of their nine children...

, billionaire chairman of Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods

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, Jana graduated from Oxford University with a history degree before joining the Fortnum & Mason management team. Since the death of their father

Garry Weston

Garfield "Garry" Howard Weston, CBE was a Canadian-born businessman in the United Kingdom. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Reta and W. Garfield Weston, owner of the George Weston Limited conglomerate headquartered in Toronto: fourth of their nine children...

, Jana's brothers George

George G. Weston

George Garfield Weston is a British businessman. He is a son of Garry Weston. He is Chief Executive of Associated British Foods, a role for which he is paid an annual salary of £825,000.-Early life:...

 and Guy

Guy Weston

Guy Weston is a British businessman. He is the eldest son of Garry Weston and Mary Weston, and brother of George G. Weston. Guy has held positions in the past in Associated British Foods. He is Chairman of Heal's plc.-Biography:...

 have run Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods plc is a global food, ingredients and retail company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its ingredients division is the world's second largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major producer of other ingredients including emulsifiers, enzymes and lactose...

and Wittington Investments Ltd. (the parent company of Fortnums's and ABF) respectively while Khayat control of Fortnum's aided by her younger sister, Kate Hobhouse, as a non-executive director.

Khayat served as chairman until July 2008.

She and her husband, Antoine Khayat, have three children: George, Hamish and Helena.