Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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. [1] GATT had a total of 5 Director-Generals until the WTO was formed in 1995. Peter Sutherland was the last Director-General of GATT, and the first of the WTO.
| Name | Took office | Left office | Country | |
| 1 | Eric Wyndham White | 1948[2] | 6 May 1968 | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Olivier Long | 6 May 1968 | 1 October 1980 | Switzerland |
| 3 | Arthur Dunkel | 1 October 1980 | 1 July 1993 | Switzerland |
| 5 | Peter Sutherland | 1 July 1993 | 1 May 1995 (WTO) | Ireland |
References
- "Eric Wyndham-White, Executive Secretary and subsequently Director-General of GATT, 1948 to 1968". World Trade Organization. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- Hoekman, Bernard; Kostecki, Michel (2001). The Political Economy of the World Trading System. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 55.
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