John Grant (British diplomat)
Sir John Grant | |
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Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
In office 1997–1999 | |
Preceded by | Sir William Ehrman |
Succeeded by | Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 October 1954 |
Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
Sir John Douglas Kelso Grant KCMG (born 17 October 1954) is a retired British diplomat whose last diplomatic post was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union between 2003 and 2007.[1] He now has a small number of part-time advisory roles.
Education
[edit]Grant was born in Singapore and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read French and German.
Career
[edit]Grant's first postings were in Stockholm (1977–1980) and Moscow (1982–1984). After 18 months with Morgan Grenfell, a London-based merchant bank, he returned to the Foreign Office as a press officer. He was posted to Brussels in 1989 and spent most of the next eight years working there in three different roles.
He was Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 1999 and served as British Ambassador to Sweden from 1999 to 2003.
Grant was then appointed UK Permanent Representative to the European Union. He chaired the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) during Britain's presidency of the EU in 2005.
After leaving the Foreign Office in 2007 Grant worked for BHP Billiton in London from 2007 to 2009, was executive vice-president, policy and corporate affairs, at BG Group from 2009 to 2015, and vice-president, international government relations, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from 2015 to 2019.
Offices held
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ A & C Black (2012). "GRANT, Sir John Douglas Kelso". Who's Who 2012, online edition. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- 1954 births
- Living people
- People educated at Edinburgh Academy
- Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom to the European Union
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden
- Principal Private Secretaries to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Members of HM Diplomatic Service
- 20th-century British diplomats
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