Colin Goad
{{Short description|British civil servant}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sir Colin Goad
| image = File:Koningin Juliana ontvangt Colin Goad, Secretaris-Generaal IMCO op Soestdijk, Bestanddeelnr 925-8768.jpg
| caption = Colin Goad (middle), 1972
| order = 4th Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization
| term_start = 1 January 1968
| term_end = 31 December 1973
|predecessor = Jean Roullier
|successor= Chandrika Prasad Srivastava
| alma_mater =
}}
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).{{cite book | last=Roe | first=Michael | title=Maritime Governance | publisher=Springer | publication-place=Cham | date=2015-08-25 | isbn=978-3-319-21747-5 | page=15}}{{cite book | last=Tan | first=Alan Khee-Jin | title=Vessel-Source Marine Pollution | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=2005-12-22 | isbn=978-1-139-44846-8 | page=77}}{{cite book | last=Gorman | first=Daniel | title=Uniting Nations | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=2022-07-28 | isbn=978-1-009-08120-7 | page=66}} He served as Secretary-General from 1968 to 1973.{{cite web | title=Previous IMO Secretaries-General | website= International Maritime Organization| date=2024-01-01 | url=https://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/SecretaryGeneral/Pages/Previous-SGs.aspx | access-date=2024-09-24}}{{cite web | title=Research Guides: UN System Documentation: IMO | website=Research Guides at United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library | date=2017-11-20 | url=https://research.un.org/en/docs/unsystem/imo | access-date=2024-09-24}}
Life and career
He was born 31 December 1914 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Cirencester Grammar School and then studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University.
In 1937 he joined the British Civil Service working at the Department for Transport. He was promoted to Under-Secretary in 1963. In January 1959 he attended the First Assembly of the IMCO. He worked on the organisations maritime safety committee before being Deputy Secretary General and serving in this role between 1963 and 1968.
Goad was appointed Secretary General of the organization on 1 January 1968. 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.{{cite book | last=Andler | first=Lydia | last2=Behrle | first2=Steffen | title=Managers of Global Change | publisher=MIT Press | publication-place=Cambridge, Mass. | date=2009 | isbn=978-0-262-01274-4 | page=153}} 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.{{cite book | title=The Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the International Maritime Organization | publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing | publication-place=Northampton | date=2024 | isbn=978-1-80220-688-3 | page=31}}{{cite book | last=Berlingieri | first=Francesco | title=International Maritime Conventions (Volume 1) | publisher=CRC Press | date=2014-05-09 | isbn=978-1-317-75059-8 | page=xxi}}
Goad served as Secretary General until 31 December 1973.
He then worked for the Liberian and Marshall Islands ship registries.
Honours
On 15 June 1974 Goad was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
His papers are held in the Bodleian Library.{{cite web | title=Papers, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing | website=Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts | url=https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/74768 | access-date=2024-09-24}}
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Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge