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Senator Giuseppe de Michelis<br />
1938-1948<br />
Senator Giuseppe De Michelis served as a member of the Standing Commission from June<br />
1938 until August 1948. Before joining the Standing Commission, he was the President of the<br />
Italian Red Cross and a member of the Council of Governors of the League of Red Cross<br />
Societies in Paris. He completed his undergraduate studies in Switzerland, where he had<br />
moved in 1890. In 1901 he graduated in medicine from the University of Lausanne and for<br />
some years, until 1905, he was Assistant to the Chair of Hygiene, Bacteriology and<br />
Experimental Medicine at the University of Geneva. In the same period and at the same<br />
university he attended Law and Management to get a second degree. He was Commissioner-<br />
General of emigration 1919-1927, after which he enjoyed a long career as an Italian<br />
diplomat, with the rank of ambassador and politician as a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. 27<br />
From 1928 he represented Italy in numerous major conferences and international<br />
commissions. 28 From 1925 to 1933 he presided over the International Institute of Agriculture<br />
27 Italian Red Cross<br />
28 https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_De_Michelis<br />
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