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...Raymond Vernon, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and renowned multinational business scholar, died on August 26 due to complications from cancer...
...among the most influential architects of the institutions governing international relations in the 20th century," said Roger B. Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government and Director of the KSG Center for Business and Government, with which Vernon was affiliated. "For over 20 years, Ray Vernon's full-time public service in Washington placed him at the center of the development of new institutions domestic and international...
...Vernon, the son of Jewish immigrants to New York City from Russia, studied at the College of the City of New York, where he earned his B.A. cum laude in 1933. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University...
Over the course of two decades, Vernon had a remarkable career in public service. Working for the Securities and Exchange Commission, he conducted the first serious study of the behavior of floor traders and specialists on the New York Stock Exchange...
While on staff at the State Department, Vernon was a member of the Marshall Plan team that guided the economic revival of Europe in the aftermath of WWII, and he helped negotiate Japan into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...