Harold McGraw III

Harold "Terry" McGraw III is president and chief executive officer of McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of American companies.

McGraw was 58 years old according to the McGraw-Hill Companies Web site, accessed in September, 2006.

At McGraw-Hill

McGraw was elected president and chief operating officer of McGraw-Hill in 1993; CEO in 1998; and chairman in December 1999. He has been a member of the corporation's board of directors since 1987. [http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/aboutus/profiles_mcgraw.shtml] McGraw-Hill Companies Web site, Web page titled "About Us » Executive Profiles » Corporate - Harold McGraw III" accessed September 15, 2006]

As CEO, 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.

Life and career outside McGraw-Hill

McGraw received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a B.A. from Tufts University in 1972. He lives in Darien, Connecticut. ["McGraw named chair of Business Roundtable", no byline, "The Darien Times", August 17, 2006]

On the Business Round table

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 CEO groups in other countries and to support free trade agreements.

The group makes up more than a third of the total value of the U.S. stock market, 60 percent of total corporate philanthropic donations in the country and almost half of all private research and development funding in the U.S.

Work in other organizations

He is a member of the board of directors of United Technologies and of ConocoPhillips; 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 W. Bush’s Transition Advisory Committee on Trade.

McGraw is chairman of the National Council on Economic Education; co-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 Prep for Prep.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/index.html McGraw-Hill Companies]