| LC control no. | n 81062357 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Marjolin, Robert |
| Birth date | 19110727 |
| Death date | 19860415 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Affiliation | Organisation for European Economic Co-operation Nancy-Université European Economic Community |
| Profession or occupation | Economists Politicians |
| Found in | Chronologie économique internationale, 1935- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1911) Robert Marjolin, in Chronoscope, 1954: title frame (Honorable Robert Marjolin, Secretary General of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation) Wikipedia, October 7, 2013 (Robert Marjolin; a French economist and politician involved in the formation of the European Economic Community; born July 27, 1911 in Paris; took evening and correspondence courses at the Sorbonne; he then studied sociology and economics at Yale University, which he completed in 1934; he also received a postgraduate doctorate in jurisprudence in 1936; in 1938 he worked as a chief assistant to Charles Rist at the Institute of Economics in Paris; during the Second World War, Marjolin became an economic advisor to the De Gaulle Government-in-exile in Great Britain; in 1943 he represented the Government-in-exile in Washington as director of a purchasing mission; after the war he became the first director of the foreign trade department in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs and then junior minister for the reconstruction of France; in August 1947 he published a memorandum which helped persuade the United States Congress to support the Marshall plan; in 1948 Marjolin was appointed the first Secretary-General of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) which was established to implement the Marshall Plan; towards the end of 1954 he resigned from his OEEC position; for a short time he was a member of the staff of the socialist minister of foreign affaires Christian Pineau and an economics professor at the University of Nancy; in 1955 he led the French delegation in negotiations on the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC); in 1958 he was appointed to one of the two French European Commissioners on the first European Commission, the Hallstein Commission, with responsibility for the economics and finance portfolios; in January 1962 he was re-appointed to the second Hallstein Commission; Marjolin unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for the French socialists in the French parliamentary election of November 1962; he died April 15, 1986) |
| Associated language | fre eng |
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