Background
Noel, Emile was born on November 17, 1922 in Istanbul, Turkey. Son of Fernand Edouard and France Marthe (Giraud) Noel.
Noel, Emile was born on November 17, 1922 in Istanbul, Turkey. Son of Fernand Edouard and France Marthe (Giraud) Noel.
Student, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1945. Degree in Science and Mathematics, University Paris, 1943. Doctor in Law and Political Science (honorary), Irish National University, 1981.
Doctor in Law and Political Science (honorary), University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1982. Doctor in Law and Political Science (honorary), University Urbino, Italy, 1987. Doctor in Law and Political Science (honorary), University Marmara, Turkey, 1988.
Doctor in Law and Political Science (honorary), Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto, Japan, 1989. Doctor in Law and Political Science (honorary), Georgetown University, 1992. Doctor (honorary), Minho University, Portugal, 1990.
Director of Constitutional Commission, of Assembly, to look at the possibilities of a European Political Community 1952-1954. Chef de Cabinet to President Consultative Assembly, Council of Europe 1954-1956. Chef de Cabinet, then Deputy Director de Cabinet of President, of the Council of Ministers, Paris 1956-1957.
Executive Secretary Commission, of European Economic Community, Brussels 1958-1967. Secretary-General Commission, of European Communities 196887. President European University Institute since 1987.
Honorary Professor Fudan and Sichuan Universities 1988, Free University Brussels 1990. Honorary Secretary-General Commission, of the European Communities. Honorary degree (Ireland) 1981, (Edinburgh) 1982, (Urbino) 1987, (Marmara, Turkey) 1988, Ritsumeikan-Kyoto, Japan 1989, Braga, Portugal 1990.
Author: Les Rouages de l'Europe, 1976, Working Together, 1975, Le Comité des Reprentants Permanents, 1966, The Single European Act (Government and Opposition - London), 1988, Reflections on the Maastricht Treaty, 1992.
Honorary secretary-general Commission of European Communities. Honorary principal European University Institute.
Married Lise Durand, 1946 (deceased April 1985). 2 children; married Madeleine Gobeil, June 1994.