Donald E. Graham

Chairman of the board and CEO of The Washington Post Company, Donald E. Graham was the publisher of The Washington Post newspaper for more than two decades until September 2000. He was born in Baltimore in 1945, 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.

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. Before he joined The Post as a reporter in 1971, Graham was a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. After holding 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 is president of the District of Columbia College Access Program and a trustee of the Federal City Council in Washington, DC. Graham is a member of the board of directors of Facebook, Inc. and The Summit Fund of Washington.