Hugh Grant (born 23 March 1958[citation needed]) is a Scottish business executive, who was the last CEO of Monsanto until its acquisition by Bayer.

He worked in Scotland from 1981 to 1991 for the then US-based Monsanto company and then was appointed global strategy director in the agriculture division, based in St. Louis, Missouri.

[1] The 20th-century Monsanto Company, in the midst of a roughly five-year series of mergers and spin-offs (which had the effect of reducing its focus on chemicals in favor of biotechnology), legally ceased to exist in 2000.

In March 2009, Grant was named one of the world's 30 most respected CEOs on Barron's annual list.

[5] In March 2018, Grant announced that after Monsanto was acquired by Bayer, he would leave the company and he received a pay-off of approximately $77m post-sale.