Donald E. Graham
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Donald E. Graham became chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in May 1991 and chairman of the board in September 1993. He is also publisher of The Washington Post newspaper, a position he has held since January 1979.

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 his death in 1963. His mother is chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company. Eugene Meyer, Graham's grandfather, purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.

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.

Graham and his wife, Mary, have four children and live in Washington, D.C.

Graham is a trustee of the Federal City Council in Washington, D.C., and president of the District of Columbia College Access Program.