Background
Whitney MacMillan was born on September 25, 1929. He is the great-grandson of William W. Cargill, the founder of Cargill. His father was Cargill MacMillan, Senior
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Whitney MacMillan
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He graduated from Yale University.
Career
He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of his family business, Cargill, from 1976 to 1995. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Cargill from 1976 to 1995. During his tenure, Cargill went from $10 billion to $33 billion over ten years.
By the 1980s, it became the world"s largest grain company, outstripping its European rivals.
He is a majority shareholder of The Mosaic Company and a director of the Western Network Information Service Enterprise Fund. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute, the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Rural Development Institute, the Trilateral Commission, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, the Ruckelshaus Institute, the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy in Bozeman, Montana and Yale President's Council on International Activities.
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is named for him. The painter Michael Shane Neal has painted his portrait.
In 2002, he received an honorary doctorate from Montana State University-Bozeman.
He owns and runs a cow and calf ranch in Park, Sweet Grass and Fergus counties in Montana. Together with the Montana Historical Society, he is restoring the ghost town of Judith Landing, Montana at the confluence of Judith River and Missouri River.
Membership
He was the last member of the Cargill family to serve as Chief Executive Officer. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, the EastWest Institute, Care International, Mayo Clinic and the Council on Foreign Relations.
