College of the City of New York (B.A., 1933) and Columbia University (Ph.D. in economics, 1941); Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935-1941; Assistant Director, Trading and Exchange Division, U.S. Dept. Of State, 1942-46 (worked about problems of competition and patents, anti-trust provisions in the occupied Germany and Japan); Assistant Chief, International Resources Division, 1946-48 (member of the Marshall Plan team); Member of Mission on Japanese Combines, 1946; Adviser on Commercial Policy, 1948; Member, U.S. Delegation, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Geneva, 1950, Torquay, England, 1951, Vice Chairman ; U.S. Delegation, Geneva, 1952; Deputy Director, Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, 1951, and Acting Director, 1954 ; Harvard Faculty, 1959. Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School, 1981.
Raymond Vernon is the author of numerous books and articles, among them: « Big Business and the State: Changing Relations in Western Europe (1974) »; « Beyond Globalism: Remaking American Foreign Economic Policy » (1989).