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).

[4] He was educated at Cirencester Grammar School and then studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University.

[4] In 1937 he joined the British Civil Service working at the Department for Transport.

[4] He worked on the organisations maritime safety committee before being Deputy Secretary General and serving in this role between 1963 and 1968.

[6] 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.