Whitney MacMillan was the Chairman and CEO of Cargill, Incorporated, an international marketer, processor, and distributor of agricultural, food, financial, and industrial products and services around the world where he served for more than forty years. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.
MacMillan was a director of the Salzburg Seminar, Rural Development Institute, The Trilateral Commission, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, International Peace Academy, Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Yale President’s Council on International Activities, Ruckelshaus Institute and School of Environmental and Natural Resources, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.