Former World Trade Organization Director General Peter Sutherland died in Dublin, Ireland today. He was 71. Sutherland became the WTO's first chief in 1995, having previously been head of its precursor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. <br/><br/><br/>Born in Dublin in 1946, he also served as Ireland's youngest Attorney General and then youngest European Union commissioner during the 1980s, had been ill for some time, Irish broadcaster RTE reported.Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said in a statement that Peter Sutherland was a statesman in every sense of the word; an Irishman, a committed European and a proud internationalist.