John W McCarter Jr

John W. McCarter, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Field Museum of Natural History, a position assumed in 1996. Mr. McCarter served as Senior Vice President of Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc., a management consulting firm, until 1997. He is also a director of Divergence, Inc. and Janus Funds. Mr. McCarter, an independent director, was first elected a director of Grainger in 1990 and is Chairman of the Board Affairs and Nominating Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. He was a White House Fellow during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. John is a Director of W.W. Grainger, Inc. He is an Emeritus Trustee of the University of Chicago and a former trustee of Princeton, a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, a Regent at the Smithsonian Institution, a trustee of the National Recreation Foundation, an Emeritus Trustee and former Chairman of Chicago’s Public Television Station Channel 11. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. John received an M.B.A. from Harvard University, attended the London School of Economics, and graduated from Princeton University in 1960. He and his wife Judy have three adult children and four grandchildren.