Meg Villarreal

Meg Villarreal is Director of Policy & Public Affairs for Nestlé based in Arlington, VA. For more than 150 years, Nestlé has been making the very best food and beverage products for families around the world. In the United States, Nestlé employs 35,000 associates and manages a wide ranging portfolio responsible for $27 billion in sales. Some of the company’s best known brands include Purina PetCare, Stouffer’s, Nespresso, CoffeeMate, Toll House, DiGiorno Pizza, and San Pellegrino. The company is part of Nestlé S.A. based in Vevey, Switzerland — the world’s largest food and beverage company — with sales of over $90 billion.

Meg has over 20 years of policy and public affairs experience in Washington D.C. and throughout the states. Currently, Meg supports Nestlé’s U.S. policy agenda and creates and maintains stakeholder relationships in policy areas critical to Nestlé’s business including energy, climate change, regenerative agriculture and the environment, the Purina business and state affairs. Before coming to Nestlé, she ran the government affairs shops at J.M Smucker, Big Heart Pet Brands and Del Monte Foods. She also worked on Capitol Hill for a Member of Congress from Missouri, managing his Agriculture and Education Committee assignments. Meg received her bachelor’s degree from University of Missouri- Columbia. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, two daughters and King Charles Cavalier, Daisy.