David A. Granger


 * David Arthur Granger


 * Leader of the Opposition


 * Leader of the People's National Congress Reform






 * Chairman: Basil Williams


 * Founded: 1957 - Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham


 * Seats in the National Assembly:


 * Ideology: Socialism


 * Headquarters: Congress Place, Sophia, Georgetown Guyana


 * Website: www.pncrguyana.com


 * Country: Guyana



David Arthur Granger (born 15 July 1945) is a Guyanese politician and retired military officer who served for a time as Commander of the Guyana Defence Force. He has been Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Guyana since January 2012.

Career
Born in Georgetown, Granger joined the Guyana Defence Force in 1965. He trained in Britain, then Brazil, then Nigeria, and eventually became commander of the Guyana Defence Force in 1979; he was promoted to the rank of brigadier. Granger was appointed as National Security Advisor to the President in 1990 and retired from the military service in 1992. In 2010, he made a successful bid to be elected as presidential candidate of the People’s National Congress Reform.

Granger founded the Guyana Review news magazine in 1992, and served as its Managing Editor. He has researched and published on military, historical and media themes, and is also the author of Guyana's state media: the quest for control, and A Preliminary Study of Women Soldiers in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Standing as the opposition coalition's presidential candidate, Granger was defeated by Donald Ramotar in the November 2011 general election. He was unanimously elected as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly on 16 January 2012.