2010 Top 200 U.S. CEOs

Biography
Harold McGraw III, age 61, has been Chairman of the Board since 2000 and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1998. Prior to that, Mr. McGraw had been President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since 1993. He was Executive Vice President, Operations, of the Company from 1989 to 1993. Prior to that, he was President of the McGraw-Hill Financial Services Company, President of the McGraw-Hill Publications Company, Publisher of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and Vice President, Corporate Planning. Before joining the Company in 1980, he held financial positions at the GTE Corporation. Mr. McGraw serves on the Boards of Directors of ConocoPhillips and United Technologies Corporation. He is Chairman of the Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) and a member of The White House convened US-India CEO Forum. He is a member of The U.S. Trade Representative's Advisory Committee for Trade, Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) as well as a member of The Business Council. He was Chairman of Business Roundtable from 2006 to 2009 and is currently a member of Business Roundtable's Executive Committee, chairing the Nominating Committee. He is Chairman of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and serves on the Board of the Council for Economic Education and is on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall as well as the Board of The New York Public Library. He also is a member of the Boards of the National Organization on Disability, The National Academy Foundation, the Asia Society and Hartley House. Mr. McGraw has served as a Director of the Company since 1987 and is Chair of the Executive Committee.