ALEXANDRE PARODI SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
/ ALEXANDRE PARODI
First French representative to the UN Security Council, Alexandre Parodi
ALEXANDRE PARODI (1901-1979) profoundly marked the french public life, through many functions he exerced during half a century in the bureaucracy, diplomacy, social life and defense and integrity of the country.
Member of the State Council from 1926, he was as a commissioner for government, one of those who contributed to build the actual administrative law.
During the Second World War, he became after Jean Moulin and Emile Bollaert, general delegate of the National Liberation Committee in a France which was occupied at that time, and became a link betweek the Resistance National Council, the Alegerian Government and the resistance organizations on the battlefield.
As soon as before the war, ALEXANDRE PARODI, assistant general secretary of the National Economic Council, predecessor of the actual Economic & Social Council, had showed up his interest for social affairs. Minister of Work and Social Security in 1944-45 he confered his prints to the fundamental texts concerning social security, work councils and to the immigration status. His sensitivity to the difficulties encountered by immigrants in France led him at the end of his life to play an active role within the social service helping immigrants, of which he ensured the presidence from 1973 until he passed away.
ALEXANDRE PARODI, from de 1945 to 1960, also carried out a brilliant carreer as a diplomat, during which he took part to the setting up of the foreign policy during the Fourth Republic and early Fifth.
Lastly, vice-president of the State Council from 1960 to 1970, he replaced René Cassin and modernized the institution while allowing it to go beyond the quakes due to the setting up of the Fifth Republic, the independance of Algeria and to May 1968.
