Hugh Grant is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

-born business manager

Business manager

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 and the head of the agricultural

Agricultural science

Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. -Agriculture and agricultural science:The two terms are often confused...

 biotechnology

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

 firm Monsanto Company.

Grant was born in Larkhall

Larkhall

Larkhall is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and is around southeast of Glasgow. It is twinned with Seclin in northern France.Larkhall sits on high ground between the River Clyde to the East and the Avon Water to the West...

, Scotland. He received a B. S. degree

Bachelor of Science

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  in agricultural

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 from Glasgow University, a postgraduate degree in agriculture from the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, and an MBA

Master of Business Administration

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 from International Management Centre

International Management Centres Association

International Management Centres Association is an international business school for career and continuing professional development through lifelong action learning working with individuals and enterprises....

 in Buckingham

Buckingham

Buckingham is a town situated in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. The town has a population of 11,572 ,...

, England

England

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. He worked in Scotland from 1981 to 1991, for the then U.S.

United States

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-based Monsanto Company, and then took the title of global strategy director in the agriculture division, based in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. In 1995 he became managing director for the company's Asia-Pacific region, and in 1998, co-president of the agriculture division.

The 20th-century Monsanto Company (in the midst of a roughly five-year series of merger

Mergers and acquisitions

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s and spin-offs that had the effect of reducing its focus on chemicals

Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

 in favor of biotechnology) legally ceased to exist in 2000, a new Monsanto Company was created, and Grant became executive vice president and chief operating officer

Chief operating officer

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 of this new Monsanto. In 2003, he became president

President

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 and chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

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, and joined the board of directors

Board of directors

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.

In March 2009, Grant was named one of the world's 30 most respected CEOs on Barron's annual list. He was named 2010 CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine.

In 2009, Grant earned a total compensation of $10,803,757, which included a base salary of $1,391,356, a cash bonus of $1,070,382, stocks granted of $1,875,766, options granted of $5,902,039, and other compensation of $564,214.