The Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The first Director-General,
Eric Wyndham White, was appointed on March 23, 1965.
GATT had a total of 4 Director-Generals until the WTO was formed in 1995.
Peter Sutherland
Peter Denis Sutherland (25 April 1946 – 7 January 2018) was an Irish businessman, barrister and Fine Gael politician who served as UN Special Representative for International Migration from 2006 to 2017. He was known for serving in a variety ...
was the last Director-General of GATT, and the first of the WTO.
See also
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Director-General of the World Trade Organization
The director-general of the World Trade Organization is the officer of the World Trade Organization (WTO) responsible for supervising and directing the organization's administrative operations. Since the World Trade Organization's decisions are ...
References
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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