Arthur R. Taylor

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Person.png Arthur R. Taylor  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(banker, media executive)
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BornJuly 6, 1935
Elizabeth, New Jersey
DiedDecember 3, 2015 (Age 80)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
Member ofBilderberg/Steering committee, Phi Beta Kappa, Trilateral Commission
American banker, media executive and member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee. President of media corporation CBS. Also working for David Rockefeller.

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In office
1992 - 2002
EmployerMuhlenberg College
Bilderberger. Resigned over accusations of sexual harassment.

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In office
1972 - 1976
EmployerCBS
Attended Bilderberg 1972, 1977, 1979, 1981

Arthur R. Taylor was an American banker, president of media corporation CBS, and member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.[1]

He resigned as president of Muhlenberg College in 2002, in the face of mounting pressure from faculty members and complaints about his behavior, including accusations of sexual harassment.[2]


Education

Taylor was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

Career

He began his corporate career with the First Boston Corporation.

He was later Vice President Finance and Executive Vice President of International Paper Company.

He was president of CBS from 1972 until 1976.[3][4]

After the ouster Taylor became the founding president of the New York City Partnership, a business and civic lobbying group formed by the banker David Rockefeller and affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. Taylor was also the founding president of the Entertainment Channel, a joint venture by the RCA Corporation and the Rockefeller Group.[5]

He also founded Arthur Taylor & Company, a private investment concern.

In 1985, Fordham University named him dean of its Graduate School of Business Administration.[6]

Taylor also was president of Muhlenberg College for a decade (1992–2002), during which Muhlenberg tripled its endowment, halved its debt, and saw a significant rise in admissions selectivity.[7] Despite these institutional successes, Taylor's resignation in 2002 followed several meetings by the College Board of Trustees over his increasingly concerning behavior; this included an ongoing investigation by the Board that Taylor had been sexually harassing employees, supplemented by an anonymously-authored document submitted to the Board detailing those actions and other inappropriate behaviors.[8]

He was married to Kathryn Pelgrift Taylor. Arthur Taylor died on December 3, 2015, from pulmonary failure in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[9]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/197221 April 197223 April 1972Belgium
Hotel La Reserve
Knokke
The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission.
Bilderberg/197722 April 197724 April 1977United Kingdom
Imperial Hotel
Torquay
The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England.
Bilderberg/197927 April 197929 April 1979Austria
Baden
Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf
27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
Bilderberg/198115 May 198117 May 1981Switzerland
Palace Hotel
Bürgenstock
The 29th Bilderberg
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