Hugh Grant

Biography

 Hugh Grant (born 23 March 1958) is a Scottish business executive, and CEO of Monsanto. He worked in Scotland from 1981 to 1991 for the then US-based Monsanto Company and then was appointed global strategy director in the agriculture division, based in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1995, he became managing director for the company's Asia-Pacific region and in 1998, co-president of the agriculture division. The 20th-century Monsanto Company, in the midst of a roughly five-year series of mergers and spin-offs (which had the effect of reducing its focus on chemicals in favor of biotechnology), legally ceased to exist in 2000. A new Monsanto Company was created and Grant became executive vice president and chief operating officer of this new Monsanto. In 2003, he became president and chief executive officer and joined the board of directors.

Research Interest

 Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation, genetic engineering.