"[1] For 25 years Granatt held a range of senior communication posts in the British civil service,[2] and was press secretary to five cabinet ministers, both Conservative and Labour.
Granatt attended Westminster City School from 1961,[3] then Queen Mary College, University of London[citation needed] where he ran the students' union newspaper for two years.
[citation needed] He briefly appeared in what its members considered the legendary folk/rock band Pig Rider penning some of the lyrics for the curiously mis-titled Paeolithic Transport Blues.
Granatt took a leading role in co-ordinating public information from government in the run up to the Millennium, during the nationwide fuel protests of 2000, and the foot and mouth disease outbreak in 2001.
Having established CCS, in late 2002[1] Granatt reverted to the sole job of leading the GICS and was promoted to director-general, at the second highest rank in the civil service.
[13] Currently he is senior associate fellow at the Advanced Research and Assessment Group of the Defence Academy of the UK, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, a past master of the City of London Guild of Public Relations Practitioners, chair of the governors and trustees of Mary Hare School, and chairman of the UK Press Card Authority.
[16] In 2007, he was the author of Luther Pendragon's code of conduct,[17] which formed part of their submission to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee inquiry into lobbying in 2008.