Graham, Donald E.

Donald E. Graham became chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chairman of the board in 1993. Publisher of the The Washington Post newspaper since 1979, Graham is a trustee of the Federal City Council in Washington, D.C., chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, and a member of the board of directors of The Summit Fund of Washington.

A 1966 graduate of Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Graham served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. Later, he became a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, a reporter at The Washington Post and held several news and business positions at Newsweek. Graham was elected a director of The Washington Post Company in 1974 and served as president from 1991-1993; he was named executive vice president and general manager of The Washington Post in 1976.

Graham served as a Pulitzer Prize board member from 1999-2008.