Grant founded BlackPoint Economics to give organisations independent, signed answers to quantitative questions - whether the AI and models they rely on are right, whether a programme delivered value for money, and what the numbers say about macroeconomics, a sector or a decision.

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He is an econometrician with twenty years inside the institutions whose forecasts the market reads. At Dun & Bradstreet he was Lead Economist and Country Risk Analyst, responsible for North America and UK sovereign risk, and the firms' Global Macro Economist. Earlier he was Lead Economist at the EIU, running its global modelling and forecasting research; head of quantitative economics and shadow sovereign ratings at Continuum Economics, a lead developer of Oxford Economics' Global Macroeconomic Model; and Senior Economist at CRU.

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That career has been spent building, validating and defending quantitative models; such as sovereign vulnerability scores, equilibrium exchange rate models, GDP nowcasting models, inflation models and extensive work with NIESR's NiGEM. Testing whether a model is well specified, stable and better than a benchmark is the discipline he brings to AI and model assurance.

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BlackPoint also works alongside other firms. Grant joins prime contractors and consortia at bid stage to design, cost and deliver the economics component of a contract, from Green Book appraisal and Magenta Book evaluation to sector analysis and scenario work, and takes direct commissions from businesses and public bodies. He has worked with clients across financial services, commodities, construction, retail, defence, insurance, energy, food and drink, business information services and the charity sector.

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He holds an MSc in Economics and is a regular speaker and media commentator.

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