Barry Metzger ’66

Barry Metzger died Dec. 22, 2012, in New York City from complications of pancreatic cancer.

Barry came to Princeton from Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J. He was a Woodrow Wilson School major and member of Tower Club. In 1966 he married Jacqueline Sue Ivers and entered Harvard Law School.

Upon receiving his law degree, Barry accepted a two-year fellowship as assistant principal of the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Law College. As he reported in one of our reunion books, exposure to the Asian world changed his life. It led to what became a truly distinguished career in international banking and financing law, much of it spent in Asia.

He was at various times director of Asian programs at the Ford Foundation’s International Legal Center, partner in the Coudert Brothers law firm, general counsel to the Asian Development Bank, and most recently, partner in the Baker & McKenzie law firm.

Barry was a trustee of Princeton-in-Asia and a member of the audit committee of the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland, and the boards of the Partnership for Transparency Fund and the Pacific Pension Institute.

The class extends its heartfelt sympathy to Jacqueline and the rest of Barry’s family.