Dr Robert Grant is Principal, RPG Consulting, offering research and analysis services on a wide range of security and defence issues. He also brings more than 25 years’ experience in setting up effective frameworks, including workshops, working groups, seminars and conferences, for promoting a candid exchange of views on sensitive policy issues, problem solving and formulating creative strategies for future policies and actions.
He has been Programme Director, Senior Programme Director and now Associate Programme Director at Wilton Park since 2008. His core focus at Wilton Park has been on transatlantic security, defence and military issues, maritime security, counterinsurgency and stabilisation operations, reconstruction and peace processes. His work at Wilton Park has further extended to an eclectic range of topics including energy geopolitics and security, democracy promotion and good governance, the rules-based international system and China’s role within it, international trade and sovereign debt restructuring.
Before joining Wilton Park, Robert was Senior Research Associate, U.S. Center for Research and Education on Strategy and Technology (U.S.-CREST). At U.S.-CREST he organised and directed US-European working groups on transatlantic armament cooperation, coalition military operations, allied concept development and experimentation, counterproliferation, and stabilisation issues.
Robert also worked as Senior Consultant at Ogden Environmental and Energy Services, where he served as project manager and/or contributing author of numerous studies in the field of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear energy, including US and European nuclear export policies, policies regarding civil plutonium use, and the worldwide provision of uranium enrichment services.
He has been an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and consultant to the Institute for Defense Analyses, French-American Foundation (FAF), and Numark Associates. With FAF, he helped organise over a ten year period annual, high-level US-French defence dialogues on topics of mutual interest to both countries.
He has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and reports on transatlantic security and defence relations, armament cooperation, missile defence, coalition military and stabilisation operations, civil-military integration, defence transformation, counterproliferation, French defence policy, energy security, and nuclear energy.
Robert obtained a BA with Honours in history from the University of Michigan and a PhD in International Politics from Sciences Po Paris. He is a dual US-UK citizen living in southeast England since 1997.