Donald E. Graham

Donald E. Graham is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Washington Post Company.

Background and early life

Graham was born on April 22, 1945, in Baltimore, Maryland, a son of Philip L. and Katharine Meyer Graham. His father was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until 1961 and president of The Washington Post Company from 1947 until his death in 1963. His mother, Katharine Graham, served in a variety of executive positions from 1963 until her death in 2001. Eugene Meyer, Graham's grandfather, purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.

Career

After graduating in 1966 from Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Graham was drafted and served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department from January 1969 to June 1970. Graham joined The Washington Post newspaper in 1971 as a reporter and subsequently held several news and business positions at the newspaper and at Newsweek. He was named executive vice president and general manager of the newspaper in 1976.

He was elected a director of The Washington Post Company in 1974 and served as president from May 1991 to September 1993. Donald E. Graham became chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in May 1991 and chairman of the board in September 1993. He was publisher of The Post from January 1979 until September 2000 and chairman of the newspaper from September 2000 to February 2008.

Affiliations

• District of Columbia College Access Program - Chairman
• Pulitzer Prize Board - Member
• Federal City Council - Trustee

Philip L. Graham Fund - Trustee

• Facebook - Director
• The Summit Fund of Washington - Director
• College Success Foundation - Director
• KIPP-DC - Director