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]
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]
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