The first years of the GATT legal service

I first came to Geneva and to the Secretariat of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1959, during a period of expansion for the Secretariat. Sweden had never before had an officer in the GATT Secretariat, and I was selected to take up a temporary position in the General Trade Policy Division. I joined the GATT Secretariat on a long-term basis on 15 May 1961.