Sir Colin Goad | |
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4th Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization | |
In office 1 January 1968 –31 December 1973 | |
Preceded by | Jean Roullier |
Succeeded by | Chandrika Prasad Srivastava |
Sir Colin Goad was a British civil servant who served as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization,then known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO). [1] [2] [3] He served as Secretary-General from 1968 to 1973. [4] [5]
He was born 31 December 1914 in Cirencester,Gloucestershire. [4] He was educated at Cirencester Grammar School and then studied history at Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge University. [4]
In 1937 he joined the British Civil Service working at the Department for Transport. [4] He was promoted to Under-Secretary in 1963. [4] In January 1959 he attended the First Assembly of the IMCO. [4] He worked on the organisations maritime safety committee before being Deputy Secretary General and serving in this role between 1963 and 1968. [3]
Goad was appointed Secretary General of the organization on 1 January 1968. [4] [3] In 1967 Goad remarked that the Torrey Canyon oil spill had a significant influence on the development of IMCO as the organization developed environmental rules (later to be the MARPOL Convention. [6] In 1969,Goad gave a speech at the International Legal Conference on Marine Pollutan damage which outlined IMCO's technical mandate and legal purview to improve maritime safety and protect the marine environment. [7] [8]
Goad served as Secretary General until 31 December 1973. [4]
He then worked for the Liberian and Marshall Islands ship registries. [4]
He died in Cirencester on 15 March 1998. [4]
On 15 June 1974 Goad was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. [4]
His papers are held in the Bodleian Library. [9]
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