Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland is one of the six most central members of the Transnational Elite.[1]
Corporate board member
He was a non-executive director of BP from 1990 to 1993 and rejoined the board in 1995, he was appointed chairman of BP in May 1997 - present [2]. He is also Chairman of Goldman Sachs International (1995 - current). His other interests include a position as a non-executive director of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Investor AB and ABB [3].
Transnational corporate networker
He is on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group[4], the European Chair of the Trilateral Commission and a member of the European Roundtable of Industrialists. Sutherland is on the International Advisory board of the Institute for International Integration Studies and the intelligence connected Centre for European Reform. In addition, he is on the advisory board of the US Council on Foreign Relations [5] who at July 9th, 2001 bear the headline "The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming" on the front page of their website [6]. Sutherland is also chairman of the US Overseas Development Council who work to emphasise 'America's national interests in multilateral engagment' [7].
From a biography on the Trilateral Commission Website dated October 2005:
- 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 Bank from 1989 to 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. Peter Sutherland is a Member of the Board of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. He is associated with the following organisations: World Economic Forum, Foundation Board Member; The European Institute (USA), Director; Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers (Hong Kong); The Federal Trust, President; Chairman of the Consultative Board of the Director General of the WTO; and Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (2nd March 2005). 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 on 21st Century Strategies of the Trilateral Countries: In Concert or Conflict? (1999, with Robert B. Zoellick and Hisashi Owada) and was re-elected in 2003 for a second term as European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
Career history
- 1969-1971 Educated at Gonzaga College, University College Dublin and at the Honorable Society of the King's Inns
- 1981-early 1982 Attorney General of Ireland and was a Member of the Council of State. He was reappointed in
- 1982 until 1984 reappointed as Attorney General
- 1984 nominated by the Government of Ireland as a Member of the Commission of the European Communities in charge of Competition Policy.
- 1989-1993 Chairman of Allied Irish Bank
- 1990 to 1993 non-executive director of BP
- 1991-1996 Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht)
- 1995, reappointed to the board of BP
- 1995-current, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
- May 1997-present, appointed chairman of BP
- 1997 founding Director-General of the World Trade Organisation
- July 1993 - Director General of GATT
- January 2001 - 2006 Board of the Royal Bank of Scotland
- 2003 re-elected for a second term as European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
References
- ^ According to Carroll and Carson the other five are Bertrand Collomb, Minoro Murofushi, Percy Barnevik Paul Allaire and Etienne Davignon. See William K. Carroll Colin Carson 'Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of Transnational Policy Groups in the Network and Discourses of Global Corporate Governance'Journal of World systems Research, Vol. 9 No. 1, Winter 2003.
- ^ Pepe Escobar 'Bilderberg Strikes Again', Asia Times, May 10, 2005.
- ^ Marketguide Executive Biographies, BP Board (July 28, 2000): http://yahoo.marketguide.com/mgi/biograph.asp?nss=yahoo&rt=biograph&rn=A1D5COffr_153959
- ^ http://yahoo.marketguide.com/mgi/biograph.asp?nss=yahoo&rt=biograph&rn=A1D5COffr_153959
- ^ http://yahoo.marketguide.com/mgi/biograph.asp?nss=yahoo&rt=biograph&rn=A1D5COffr_153959
- ^ http://www.cfr.org
- ^ http://www.odc.org
