 David A. Granger spent the 1995–1996 academic year as a Hubert H. Humphrey/Fulbright Fellow at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.In 2010, he made a successful bid to be elected as the presidential candidate of the People’s National Congress–Reform for the November 2011 general election.Standing as the opposition coalition's presidential candidate, Granger was defeated by Donald Ramotar.