Gardner Patterson

Background

Gardner was born on May 13, 1916, in Burt, Iowa, United States.

Education

Patterson had a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

Career

In 1946, at the age of 30, Patterson was one of two advisers to a currency committee that took control of Greece's imports and exports. He left that post in 1949 to become a professor of economics at Princeton University.

While teaching at Princeton, Dr. Patterson served in various roles on United States Government economic missions in Tunisia and Turkey and was a consultant to the State Department. He became the director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 1958. Patterson left Princeton in 1965 to become deputy director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, in Geneva, now the World Trade Organization. He returned to Princeton two years later, but in 1969 he returned to GATT as a director general for trade policy.

He retired from GATT in 1981 and moved to Washington, although he remained actively involved with the organization, assisting in the resolution of four international trade disputes before the group.

Achievements

• Gardner Patterson was one of the well-known economists and authors in the United States. He helped negotiate international treaties as well as resolve trade disputes. He wrote several books, including a number of editions of the ''Survey of United States International Finance'' and more than 63 articles on international economic issues.

Works

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  • A Critique of the Randall Commission Report on United States Foreign Economic Policy
  • NATO, a critical appraisal: A report prepared on the basis of an international conference 1968

Connections

Patterson had a wife, Evelyn, and one daughter, Eliza Patterson.

Spouse:

Evelyn Patterson.

Daughter:

Eliza Patterson

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 181
  2000