Appointment of Ralph P. Davidson as a Member of the President's Commission on Executive Exchange

The President today announced his intention to appoint Ralph P. Davidson to be a member of the President's Commission on Executive Exchange for a term of 2 years.

Mr. Davidson has been with Time, Inc., for 27 years and is currently serving as chairman of the board. He was elected a director of Time, Inc., in April 1980. He was elected a vice president of Time, Inc., and named publisher of Time, a post he held for 6 years, in 1972. He was named European regional manager of Time International in 1957 and spent the next decade as an advertising sales executive covering a number of European countries, later becoming Time's European advertising director.

He graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1950). He has two children and resides in New York, N.Y. He was born August 17, 1927.