Lee R. Raymond is the chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Before the merger of Exxon and Mobil on November 30, 1999, Mr. Raymond was chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Corporation.

A native of Watertown, South Dakota, Mr. Raymond graduated in 1960 from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. In 1963, he received a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the University of Minnesota. He joined Exxon that same year as a production research engineer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the next 16 years, he held positions of increasing responsibility with Exxon Company, U.S.A.; Creole Petroleum Corporation, which was Exxon's operating affiliate in Venezuela before those facilities were nationalized; the former Exxon International Company, which was responsible for Exxon's international supply and transportation of petroleum products and crude oil; and Lago Oil & Transport Company, Limited, the Exxon affiliate in Aruba.

He became president of Exxon Nuclear Company, Inc. in 1979, and moved to New York in 1981, when he was named executive vice president of Exxon Enterprises. In 1983, Mr. Raymond was named president and director of Esso Inter-America Inc., with responsibilities for Exxon's operations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. Mr. Raymond was named a senior vice president and was elected to the board of directors of the corporation in 1984. He became president of the corporation in 1987.

Mr. Raymond is a director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and the United Negro College Fund. He is a director and member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee of the American Petroleum Institute, and a director and member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the JASON Foundation for Education. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Golden Plate Awards Council of the American Academy of Achievement.

He is a Trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Project Shelter Pro-Am and a member of the Board and an Honorary Trustee of the Business Council for International Understanding, Inc.

Mr. Raymond is a member of The Business Council, The Business Roundtable and also serves as a member of the Roundtable's Policy Committee and its Taxation Task Force, the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations, The American Council on Germany, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Emergency Committee for American Trade, the Singapore-U.S. Business Council, The Executive Committee of The 21st Century Campaign of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Petroleum Council, the Trilateral Commission, the Dallas Citizens Council, and the University of Wisconsin Foundation. He is a partner emeritus of the New York City Partnership.