WASHINGTON - Gerald M. Rosberg has been named vice president-planning and development of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), it was announced today. He succeeds Ross F. Hamachek, who remains a vice president of the company.

Mr. Rosberg is currently vice president-affiliates of The Washington Post newspaper, a position he assumed in November 1997 and which he will retain. He joined The Post in January 1996.

Mr. Rosberg, 52, came to The Post from Computer Associates International, Inc., a computer software company, where he was senior vice president and general counsel and then senior vice president-business development. Before joining CA, Mr. Rosberg was for ten years a partner in the Washington office of Dewey Ballantine, a New York law firm, where he specialized in litigation and federal regulatory matters.

From 1974 to 1982, Mr. Rosberg was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School, where he became a full professor. He served in 1980-81 as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. There he helped establish the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal that has adjudicated claims between Iran and the United States under the settlement that freed the U.S. Embassy hostages.

Mr. Rosberg graduated from Harvard College, where he was assistant managing editor of The Harvard Crimson, and Harvard Law School, where he was Supreme Court editor of The Harvard Law Review. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and then as a clerk to Mr. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Rosberg is a trustee of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a private foundation concerned with health care.

Mr. Rosberg is married to Laura Rosberg, and they have a daughter, Leslie. The family lives in the District of Columbia.

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