Ed Grant is a Senior Advisor of Empire Asia Group Co., Ltd., a Bangkok-based business development, strategic planning & investment company that provides development expertise on diverse projects throughout Asia and the Middle East, with a primary concentration today in the industrial estate, infrastructure, community development and environmental sectors. A resident of Asia for the past 30 years, Mr. Grant has preformed numerous assignments as a business consultant and project manager on diverse projects throughout the region. This has included the successful development of mixed-use projects in China and the UAE over the past 5 years, and previously on numerous residential and industrial projects within Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard, which remains the country’s most important economic development zone, located 100 km Southeast of Bangkok. A registered architect/project manager by education and experience, Mr. Grant is widely recognized as an expert in the planning, promotion and implementation of large commercial, industrial and real estate development projects. In this connection, Mr. Grant has worked and traveled extensively throughout the Asia and the Middle East, where he has also established high-level business relationships in Thailand, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.