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GONZAGA AT SIXTY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
Atorney General in two governments before going on to internaional posiions n the European
Commission and the GATT/WTO. Even when I let the WTO for family reasons I felt a nagging
doubt about whether it was right to do so, and ever since I have subconsciously searched for
some other acivity in this space. I was asked by Koi Annan to become UN High Commissioner
for Refugees and said yes, but was told that I had two weeks to an announcement and could
not do it in this ime. A consolaion prize later was to be appointed Special Representaive for
Migraion, a posiion I sill hold. Undoubtedly my other business aciviies have played a role in
my life but the invisible hand of the Jesuits has always pointed in another direcion.
Those who shared this experience with me remain friends today. We were moulded in
the same forge and share so much that we remain compaible in a unique way. Perhaps it is an
excess of nostalgia to see those days through rose inted spectacles but that is the way it is.
Peter Sutherland
Class of 1964
Peter Sutherland was Atorney General of Ireland under two governments and Ireland’s European
Commissioner, with responsibility for compeiion policy and later for educaion. In the later posiion
he introduced the Erasmus Programme. He was Director General of GATT/WTO. He has served as
Chairman of the European Insitute of Public Administraion; of BP plc for 13 years; and of
AIB in the early 1990s. Currently he is the Chairman of the Council of the London School
of Economics, as well as Chairman of Goldman Sachs Internaional. The United Naions
Secretary General has recently appointed him as his Special Representaive for Migraion
Peter Sutherland addressing Fifth
and Sixth Years, October 2010
GONZAGA AT SIXTY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
Atorney General in two governments before going on to internaional posiions n the European
Commission and the GATT/WTO. Even when I let the WTO for family reasons I felt a nagging
doubt about whether it was right to do so, and ever since I have subconsciously searched for
some other acivity in this space. I was asked by Koi Annan to become UN High Commissioner
for Refugees and said yes, but was told that I had two weeks to an announcement and could
not do it in this ime. A consolaion prize later was to be appointed Special Representaive for
Migraion, a posiion I sill hold. Undoubtedly my other business aciviies have played a role in
my life but the invisible hand of the Jesuits has always pointed in another direcion.
Those who shared this experience with me remain friends today. We were moulded in
the same forge and share so much that we remain compaible in a unique way. Perhaps it is an
excess of nostalgia to see those days through rose inted spectacles but that is the way it is.
Peter Sutherland
Class of 1964
Peter Sutherland was Atorney General of Ireland under two governments and Ireland’s European
Commissioner, with responsibility for compeiion policy and later for educaion. In the later posiion
he introduced the Erasmus Programme. He was Director General of GATT/WTO. He has served as
Chairman of the European Insitute of Public Administraion; of BP plc for 13 years; and of
AIB in the early 1990s. Currently he is the Chairman of the Council of the London School
of Economics, as well as Chairman of Goldman Sachs Internaional. The United Naions
Secretary General has recently appointed him as his Special Representaive for Migraion
Peter Sutherland addressing Fifth
and Sixth Years, October 2010
