predecessor successor death_date death_place nationality birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
none olivier long 27 january 1980 france british 26 january 1913 1st trade director-general of the general agreement on tariffs and 23 march 1965 eric wyndham white
 6 may 1968 eric wyndham white
eric wyndham white

sir eric wyndham white kcmg -lrb- 1913 -- 1980 -rrb- was a british administrator and economist .
he was founder and first executive secretary of the general agreement on tariffs and trade between 1948 and 1965 .
he was the first director-general of general agreement on tariffs and trade from 1965 to 1968 .
born on the 26 january 1913 , white was educated at the westminster city school and the london school of economics .
he graduated as a llb with first class honours and in 1938 was called to the bar by the middle temple .
he was an assistant lecturer at the lse until the second world war started when he moved to the ministry of economic warfare .
in 1942 he became the first secretary at the british embassy in washington .
in 1945 he became special assistant to the european director of the united nations relief and rehabilitation administration .
he became involved in the forming of a secretariat for a new international trade organisation , the general agreement on tariffs and trade in 1948 and became the first director-general .
white died aged 67 on the 27 january 1980 in france after suffering a heart attack while swimming .
