Grant Steven Musgrove (born 28 March 1968) is an Australian public figure. Roles have included Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR), the peak industry body for the resource recovery industry, a senior university advisor and member of parliament. He is a regular media commentator and keynote speaker on resource recovery and the recycling industry internationally. He was the member for Springwood in the

Legislative Assembly of Queensland The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembl ...

from 1998 to 2001, representing the Labor Party. At

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian s ...

, Musgrove completed a

Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, ...

, majoring in Economics, and a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

, majoring in Environmental Planning. He started his career as policy officer in the Department of Premier and Cabinet in 1992. In 1996, he resigned from the public service to run for a seat in parliament. In 1998, Musgrove was elected as the

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member for Springwood. He secured the largest swing to a government member in the 1998 Queensland state election (11%) and was elected as its youngest member. His victory, on a narrow margin of 1%, enabled the formation of the first Beattie minority government. Musgrove was appointed as Chair of the Queensland Innovation Council (developing the Queensland Innovation Strategy), the Queensland Public Works Committee, Griffith University Council and to several Budget Estimates Committees. He quit from parliament after speaking out against branch stacking, providing testimony to an inquiry that there was a culture of branch stacking in politics.Report of the Shepherdson Inquiry into electoral fraud, 2001
/ref> Musgrove went on to work as a government relations consultant then as Senior Manager and Adviser at

. He served on number of boards, councils, expert government committees and advisory boards in relation to

resource recovery Resource recovery is using wastes as an input material to create valuable products as new outputs. The aim is to reduce the amount of waste generated, thereby reducing the need for landfill space, and optimising the values created from waste. Resou ...

and

resource efficiency Resource efficiency is the maximising of the supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively, with minimum wasted (natural) resource expenses. It means using the ...

, and is a Member of the

Australian Institute of Company Directors The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is a non-profit membership organization for directors. The AICD is a founding member of the Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI). History The origins of the AICD can be traced ba ...

. He has served as a board member or advisor of the following organizations:
National Packaging Covenant Industry Association
* Founder o
circulareconomy.org.au

NSW Business and Financial Model Working Group
* Sustainability Victoria Integrated Waste Management Expert Reference Group * Queensland Container Deposits Scheme Advisory Group * Queensland Energy from Waste Working Group
United Nations Centre for Regional Development: International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities
As a chief executive officer o
ACOR
Musgrove has been a regula

in ''

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'', and on ABC Television news and current affairs, discussing issues related to the recycling and the resource recovery industry. '

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Musgrove, Grant 1968 births Living people Independent members of the Parliament of Queensland Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 21st-century Australian politicians