Peter Sutherland

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Peter Sutherland (2011)

Peter Denis Sutherland (born April 25, 1946 in Dublin ; † January 7, 2018 there ) was an Irish lawyer , politician and manager .

Among other things, he was Attorney General of Ireland, European Commissioner for Competition , Chairman of Goldmann Sachs and UN Special Rapporteur on Migration and Migration Advisor to Pope Francis .

Life

Peter Sutherland attended Gonzaga College in Ranelagh, Dublin, and studied law at University College Dublin . From 1969 to 1980 he worked as a lawyer.

He was the Attorney General of Ireland from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1984 . He was then in the Delors I Commission from 1985 to 1986 Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities and from 1985 to 1989 Commissioner for Competition . From 1993 to 1995 Sutherland was the last GATT General Director and the first General Director of the World Trade Organization .

From 1995 to 2015 Sutherland was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the investment bank Goldman Sachs International . Among other things, he was Chairman of BP (1997 to 2009), ABB and the Royal Bank of Scotland - but he had to retire from the latter position when the bank could only be saved from bankruptcy through intervention by the British government. He has held numerous other mandates in the banking and industrial sectors as well as in economic, energy and technology companies and has been an advisor to numerous governments. Among other things, he was chairman of the European Trilateral Commission from 2001 to 2010 , and vice-chairman of the European Round Table and the Bilderberg Conference from 2006 to 2009 , which has been a member of the steering committee since 2014.

In the era of Kofi Annan, Sutherland became the UN Special Representative for International Migration to the United Nations (2006 to 2017). Since 2006 he was (allegedly) an advisor to the property management of the Apostolic See . In February 2015 he was selected by Francis as Chairman of the International Catholic Migration Commission ( International Catholic Migration Commission ordered).

In 2017 he starred in the movie Sea Sorrow .

Since 1974 he was married to the Spaniard Maruja Sutherland.

Views on immigration

Statements made during an interview by the House of Lords EU Internal Affairs Subcommittee investigating global migration issues :

  1. Migration is a "decisive engine for economic growth " in some EU nations, "as difficult as it can be to explain this to the citizens of those states."
  2. "Many of us still have a feeling of our [ethnic] homogeneity and our difference from others, which I believe the European Union should do its best to undermine."
  3. An aging or declining native population in countries like Germany or the southern EU is the "key argument - and I hesitate to use the word because it has been the subject of attacks - for the development of multicultural states."
  4. “Europe is facing an immigration disaster. Central politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, practice rhetoric directed against immigrants in order to win over a frightened audience while the out-of-towners are increasingly marginalized in schools, cities and workplaces. Yet many employers lack the workers they need, despite high unemployment in large parts of the continent. There are not enough engineers, doctors and nurses; also farm workers and nurses. And Europe can never have enough entrepreneurs whose ideas drive the economy and create jobs. "

More quotes:

  1. "Last year, during the Arab Revolution, the EU missed a historic opportunity to begin weaving the two sides of the Mediterranean together".
  2. The rejection of more comprehensive globalization is "morally unsustainable"

On February 3, 2017, a report by Sutherland was presented to the UN General Assembly. The report relates to a. on the development of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees .

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former attorney General Peter Sutherland dies aged 71
  2. ↑ Goldman Sach's City grandee Peter Sutherland bows out , thetimes.co.uk, May 21, 2015 , accessed January 1, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Peter Sutherland, the Pope's migration advisor on catholic.info from January 17, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2018
  4. ↑ a b c d EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief. In: BBC News. June 21, 2012, accessed January 7, 2018 .
    1. He told the House of Lords committee migration was a “crucial dynamic for economic growth” in some EU nations “however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states”.
    2. "The European Union [...] should be doing its best to undermine" any "sense of our homogeneity and difference from others."
    3. "An aging or declining native population in countries like Germany or southern EU states was the key argument and, I hesitate to the use word because people have attacked it, for the development of multicultural states."
    4. “Europe faces an immigration predicament. Mainstream politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric to win over a fearful public, while the foreign-born are increasingly marginalized in schools, cities and at the workplace. Yet, despite high unemployment across much of the Continent, too many employers lack the workers they need. Engineers, doctors and nurses are in short supply; so, too, are farmhands and health aides. And Europe can never have enough entrepreneurs, whose ideas drive economies and create jobs. "
  5. ^ [1] Minutes of the British House of Lords Subcommittee on EU Impact on Domestic Policy. Published December 6, 2012. https://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/eu-sub-com-f/GAMM/EvidencevolumegmmFINAL.pdf (p. 265)
  6. ^ Peter Sutherland, Cecilia Malmstrom: Europe's Immigration Challenge . Project Syndicate, July 20, 2012, accessed January 7, 2018:
    “Last year, during the Arab revolutions , the EU missed a historic opportunity to begin weaving together the two sides of the Mediterranean”.
  7. ^ The questions Peter Sutherland, the globe's grandee, was NOT asked by the Lords EU sub-committee . Daily Mail , June 27, 2012, accessed on January 7, 2018:
    “But the money was always incidental to the greater aim of getting rid of all those pesky prehistoric frontiers, traditions and identities which impede the global flows of capital, commodities, human rights lawyers, pictures of celebrities in thongs, and humans in throngs. As he remarked almost angrily in 2007, opposition to greater globalization is 'morally indefensible'. ”
  8. ↑ A / 71/728: Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Migration. United Nations, February 3, 2017, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  9. ^ Past Members: Peter Denis Sutherland. Royal Irish Academy, accessed April 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sutherland, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutherland, Peter Denis (full name); Sutherland, Peter D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish lawyer, politician and manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2018
Place of death Dublin