Education
Tufts University; University of Pennsylvania. The Wharton School.
Tufts University; University of Pennsylvania. The Wharton School.
He served as chief executive officer of the company from 1998 through 2013, and was president from 1993 to 2013. He is the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce and very active on trade issues on the world stage. He has been Chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of Chief executive officers of American companies.
McGraw was elected president and chief operating officer of McGraw-Hill in 1993, Chief Executive Officer in 1998, and chairman in December 1999.
As Chief Executive Officer, he led the consolidation of 15 diverse units into three business segments, each a market leader. McGraw joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in 1980 and was vice president, Corporate Planning.
Publisher, Aviation Week & Space Technology. President, McGraw-Hill Publications Company.
And president, McGraw-Hill Financial Services Company.
McGraw attended Salisbury School for his high school years. McGraw received an Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 1972. He lives in Darien, Connecticut.
On the Business Roundtable
McGraw was chairman of the group"s International Trade & Investment Task Force from October 2003 through 2006.
In that post, he led the task force"s efforts to work with Chief Executive Officer groups in other countries and to support free trade agreements. The group makes up more than a third of the total value of the United States. stock market, 60 percent of total corporate philanthropic donations in the country and almost half of all private research and development funding in the United States.
Work in other organizations
McGraw is Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the United States Council for International Business and Chairman of the United States President"s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
McGraw is Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the United States Council for International Business and Chairman of the United States President"s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
He has been a member of the corporation"s board of directors since 1987. He is a member of the board of directors of United Technologies and of Phillips 66, chairman of the Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT), and a member of the Business Council. In the past he served as a member of President George West. Bush"s Transition Advisory Committee on Trade.
McGraw is also chairman of the National Council on Economic Education.
Company-chair of Carnegie Hall"s Corporate Leadership Committee and member of its Board of Trustees. Member of the boards of the New York Public Library, National Organization on Disability, National Academy Foundation, Partnership for New York City, National Actors Theater and Preparatory for Preparatory
