Peter Sutherland (1946 - ): Topic PageIrish lawyer, representative, administrator, and international business figure. He served as attorney general of the Republic of Ireland (1981-85), European Union (EU) commissioner (1985-93), and was appointed director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) organization in 1993, and its replacement body, the World Trade Association (WTO), until 1995.