Peter Sutherland !

P eter Sutherland Peter Sutherland is chairman of BP plc (1997 - current).

He is also chairman of Goldman Sachs International (1995 - current). He was appointed
chairman of the London School of Economics in 2008. He is currently UN special
representative for migration and development. Before these appointments, he was the
founding director-general of the World Trade Organisation. He had previously served as
director general of GATT since July 1993 and was instrumental in concluding the Uruguay
GATT Round Negotiations. Prior to this position, he was chairman of Allied Irish Banks from
1989-1993 and chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public
Administration (Maastricht) 1991-1996. Educated at Gonzaga College, University College
Dublin and at the Honorable Society of the King's Inns, from 1969 to 1971 Mr. Sutherland
was a tutor in law at University College Dublin. From 1981 until early 1982, he was attorney
general of Ireland and was a member of the Council of State. He was reappointed in 1982
until 1984 when he was nominated by the Government of Ireland as a member of the
Commission of the European Communities in charge of competition policy. During his first
year at the Commission he was also responsible for social Affairs, health and education and
thereafter for relations with the European Parliament. He serves on the Board of Directors of
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and is associated with the following organisations:
World Economic Forum, Foundation Board member; The Federal Trust, president;
European Policy Centre Advisory Council, president; European Round Table of Industrialists,
vice-chairman; the Royal Irish Academy, member; goodwill ambassador to the United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation; and consultor for the Administration of the
Patrimony of the Holy See. He has published numerous articles and the book "Premier
Janvier 1993, ce qui va changer en Europe" (Paris). He was presented with the Robert
Schuman Medal for his work on European Integration and the David Rockefeller Award of
the Trilateral Commission. Mr. Sutherland was a Trilateral Commission author of 21st
Century Strategies of the Trilateral Countries: In Concert or Conflict? (1999, with
Robert B. Zoellick and Hisashi Owada) and was re-elected in 2006 for a third term as
European Chairman.

February 2009

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