Grant Tudor is currently a Policy Advocate with Protect Democracy where he develops and advances ideas for strengthening U.S. democratic norms and institutions, and was prior a senior manager of political reform at Harvard’s Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness.

Grant received his MBA from Harvard Business School and MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he studied advanced multiparty negotiations and mediation. While an MBA/MPP candidate, Grant was a Visiting Fellow in the Middle East with UNRWA, a UN refugee agency; a Visiting Fellow in Asia with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a group that mediates armed conflict; and awarded the Zuckerman and George Fellowships by Harvard's Center for Public Leadership for his commitment to public service. Grant was also a founding partner at Nucleus Impact, a 501(c)3 that works with organizations globally, including various UN agencies, to make progress on intractable problems by better understanding human behavior. He has written on topics related to conflict and political reform in a variety of academic and popular outlets, including the Taiwan Journal of Democracy, the Bangkok Post, and Brookings, among others.

Among his most formative experiences, Grant served as a longtime volunteer with The Trevor Project, a 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention service for LGBTQ youth. As a Lifeline Counselor, he regularly encountered the challenges of difficult conversations and honed the tools to better engage with them. Grant is also an active member of the Leadership Now Project, a national network of business and policy leaders committed to improving American democracy, and serves on the Board of Nucleus Impact. He received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude) from the George Washington University.