| Mary Graham | |
| Birth Name: | Mary Wissler |
| Education: | B.A. Radcliffe College J.D. Georgetown University Law Center |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Spouse: | |
| Children: | 4 |
Mary Graham (née Wissler) is an American writer and co-director of the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She has written four books on the politics of public information. Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power, was published in 2017.[1] In 2007, with co-authors Boston University professor David Weil and Harvard University professor Archon Fung, she wrote Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency.[2] In 2002, she wrote Democracy by Disclosure: The Rise of Technopopulism.[3] In 1999, she wrote The Morning after Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics.[4]
Graham has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, Environment, Issues in Science and Technology, and other publications. She has a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and an undergraduate degree from Harvard-Radcliffe. From 1967 to 2007, she was married to former Washington Post publisher Donald Graham. They have four adult children.
From 2001 to 2013 Graham was a board member for the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation.[5] In 2010, she joined the advisory board for the Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative.[6]
Earlier in her career, she practiced law in Washington, DC, worked on regulatory reform at the U.S. Department of Transportation,[7] and worked on legislative and budget issues at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
Graham is a trustee of the Juilliard School for the Performing Arts[8] and a member of the visiting committee of the Columbia University School of Journalism.
She also serves as a trustee emerita of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,[9] and serves on the board of directors of The Pew Charitable Trusts.[10]
In 1967, Graham married Donald E. Graham, grandson of Eugene Meyer. In 2007, the couple announced that they were separating.[11] They have four children.