Charles Grant has been the Director of the Centre for European Reform, an independent think-tank, since its foundation in 1998.

He was a Director and Trustee of the British Council from 2002 until October 2008. He is a member of the international advisory boards of the Moscow School of Political Studies, the Turkish think-tank EDAM and the French think-tank Terra Nova. Prior to working at the Centre for European Reform, he was a journalist on The Economist - in London and Brussels - and Euromoney. In 1994 his biography of Jacques Delors - 'Inside the House that Jacques built' - was published by Nicolas Brealey. He became a chevalier of France’s Ordre Nationale du Mérite in 2004.