About Grant Perry
Grant Perry is a new media consultant, university lecturer, journalist and lawyer. He is president of Evolution Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in new media strategies and content development. Perry is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches “Journalism in the Digital Age” in the graduate Communication in Contemporary Society program. He is also developing a major center for global media entrepreneurship at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.
Previously, Perry was vice president of Winning Connections, a Washington political consulting firm, and headed Global Media Innovations, which produced Webcasts, Web video, TV segments and marketing promotions for Yahoo, Salon.com, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Francis Ford Coppola.
An award-winning journalist, Grant was a New York-based correspondent for CNN and the anchor of CNN International’s London-based business program, World Business Today. During his nearly four years as anchor, Grant conducted extended interviews with leading business and political leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke, Sony Chairman Akio Morita, British Airways CEO Colin Marshall, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Disney Chairman & CEO Michael Eisner, Soros Fund Management Chairman George Soros, Virgin Chairman Richard Branson and Bertelsmann CEO Mark Wössner. Grant also was chief political correspondent for two network affiliates in the Midwest.
Perry runs the “Innovators Forum” speaker series at American University’s School of Communication, where he also has taught a graduate journalism seminar. Perry is an attorney and member of the Washington, DC Bar. He has contributed to public radio’s Marketplace and to a number of periodicals.