John Grant (British diplomat)


Sir John Douglas Kelso Grant is a retired British diplomat whose last diplomatic post was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union between 2003 and 2007.
Since 2016 he has held the position of Vice-President, International Government Relations at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. He is a member of the Scottish Government’s Standing Council on Europe, a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for European Reform and a Senior Adviser to PWC on Brexit.

Education

Grant was born in Singapore and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read French and German.

Career

Grant’s first postings were in Stockholm and Moscow. 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 during Britain’s Presidency of the EU in 2005.
After leaving the Foreign Office in 2007 Grant worked for BHP Billiton in London from 2007–2009 and was Executive Vice-President, Policy and Corporate Affairs, at BG Group from 2009 to 2015.

Offices held