Ann Grant

Ann Grant joined Standard Chartered Bank as Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd in June 2005. Ann was British High Commissioner to South Africa from 2000 to 2005. She joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 1971, and held a number of diplomatic postings in India, Mozambique, Brussels (European Union) and New York (UK Mission to the UN). From 1998 she worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, as Director for Africa and the Commonwealth. Ann is an Independent Trustee on the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, Director of Tullow Oil and Board Member of the Overseas Development Institute, London.

Statement of support

The Treatment Action Campaign informed, educated and inspired me from my arrival in S A as British High Commisioner in 2000. Their impressive grassroots membership, mostly young volunteers,the quality of their analysis and recommendations and their hard working dedication have made TAC an indispensible leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, in SA and globally. I am honoured to be able to join them more directly in their work now that I have left the UK Civil Service, and of have the opportunity to help engage a wider audience in TACs and FOTACs support.