Career
Cartland"s career in Hong Kong began with formulating trade policy during the 1980s. He was the territory"s first Permanent Representative to the General Agreement of Tariff and Trades. He help Hong Kong in the Uruguay Round and was chair of the Negotiating Group on Subsidies and Countervail at Uruguay. Cartland chaired various panels in General Agreement of Tariff and Trades and the World Trade Organization from 1986 to 2007.
In 1993 he was appointed Secretary for Financial Services.
Cartland was required to retire in the interests of localisation under the compensation scheme which applied to all expatriate non-Chinese officers with similar seniority in the run up to the handover of sovereignty in 1997. He was replaced towards the end of 1995 as Secretary for Financial Services by Rafael Hui.
He participated in that capacity in the launching of the Uruguay Round and went on to chair the Negotiating Group on Subsidies and Countervail during the Round. He also made a substantial contribution to General Agreement of Tariff and Trades and World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement by chairing the panels in no less than sixteen cases over the twenty years to 2005.
