Glen Grant graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Junior Staff
Course Warminster and the Joint Staff Defence College at the Royal Naval College
Greenwich. He has also attended the Army Commanding Officers course and the Navy
and Air Force operations courses. His key work in the last twenty years has been
delivering reform and change for defence and security organisations in Europe.
He has worked in the Defence Ministries of Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria,
Montenegro, Moldova, Poland, Kosovo, Serbia and Chile.

During his 37 year military career Glen commanded the UK Military Prison and an
Artillery battery of 8 tracked guns. He worked on the operational and policy
staffs in 1st British Corps Headquarters, the Army Headquarters, the UK Ministry
of Defence, the NATO Air Headquarters, Combined Air Operations Centre 5 in Italy
and on the staffs of four Brigade headquarters. This work involved him
supporting many UK operations including both Gulf wars, Bosnia and Kosovo.

Glen ended his career as UK Defence Attaché to Finland followed by Latvia
and Estonia. During this time he was an adviser to President Meri in Estonia on
issues of joining NATO. After leaving the Army he returned to Estonia as an
adviser to the Defence Minister Jyrgen Ligi.   

In 2016 Glen was Project Manager in MOD Ukraine running a one year UK funded
project ”Reform of Defence Housing” and in 2018 published a ground
breaking paper on reform of the Ukraine military.  He is a skilled change
manager with a Masters degree in the leadership of change from York St John
University in UK.  Glen is a faculty member of Riga Business School Latvia
lecturing on the Bachelor of Business Administration course in Strategy, HRM,
Crisis Management and Entrepreneurship. As a business consultant he has worked
on transformation with companies as diverse as publishing, agriculture, telecoms
and luxury goods retailing. He also moderates international conferences in a
wide range of subjects from Health and IT Security to rehabilitation of sex
offenders.

Glen had a second career as an international athlete running in three World
cross country championships and a Commonwealth Games setting a Welsh national
record at 1500m. He has also coached internationals in running, modern
pentathlon, triathlon, cross country skiing, biathlon and orienteering.