Dan Grant
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Dan Grant is an Austin, Texas based international affairs consultant who ran for U.S. Congress in Texas District 10 (map) but lost in the Democratic Primary to Larry Joe Doherty.
Grant grew up in Austin and graduated from McCallum High School. He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. with a Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service. Grant is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a Master’s of Science in Government Administration and Public Policy.
Grant was an elections supervisor in organizing the 2001 Kosovo elections, working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to help organize more than 100 polling stations and hire staff to facilitate the historic vote. He also monitored and enforced polling place procedures for important municipal elections throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 1990s.
Grant helped coordinate security and policy planning in Afghanistan's post-Taliban constitutional convention on the behalf of USAID, and previously served as an operations officer for the massive effort to re-establish Afghanistan’s Central Bank.
In Iraq, his duties included helping the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq prepare and conduct the historic elections of 2005. He consulted with international military forces and local leaders in Basra, Fallujah, and Mosul.
As deputy director of Iraq’s largest out-of-country voting program, Grant oversaw an unprecedented effort to give democracy a chance in the Middle East by registering eligible voters in major U.S. cities for Iraq’s Transitional National Assembly election. He oversaw a staff of more than a thousand and a budget of millions of dollars and ran the day-to-day operations of all senior personnel.
