Background
ELKIN, Alexander was born in August 1909 in 2nd, Saint St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). Son of Boris Elkin and Anna Elkin.
ELKIN, Alexander was born in August 1909 in 2nd, Saint St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). Son of Boris Elkin and Anna Elkin.
Grunewald Gymnasium, Russian Academic School. Berlin and University of Berlin, Kiel and London.
Assistant Director United Nations European Office, Geneva). Deputy Legal Adviser, later Legal Adviser Organization of European Economic Cooperation (later Organisation for Economic Company-operation and Development ), Paris 1949-1961. Legal Consultant, formation of AfDB 1962-1964.
Acting General Counsel AfDB 1964-1965.
ITNDP Legal Consultant, formation of Caribbean Development Bank 1967-1968. Special Adviser on European Community Law, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1970-1979.
Other legal consultancies for international organisations. Ford Foundation Leadership Grant 1960.
Lecturer at international seminars et cetera and University of Bradford 1979-1984, University of Bath 1979-1990.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (University of Bath). Publicatioiis: articles in yearbooks, professional.
Married Muriel Solomons in 1937.