Alberico Casardi
 Alberico Casardi    (diplomat) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 February 1903 Siena | |||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 March 1968 (Age 65) | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Rome | |||||||||||||||
Italian diplomat. Unlike many NATO Deputy Secretary Generals, he is not suspected to have been a Bilderberg member.
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Alberico A. Casardi was an Italian diplomat. Unlike many NATO Deputy Secretary Generals, he is not suspected to have been a Bilderberg member.
Career
Casardi was born on February 3, 1903 in Siena. After completing his legal studies at the University of Rome in 1927, he entered the diplomatic service of his country and was successively vice-consul in New York, consul in Callao (Peru), secretary of the Italian delegation to the economic conference in London, secretary of the legation in London and 1 .Secretary of the Legation in Berlin. He was then Counselor in Buenos Aires.[1]
He worked in the General Secretariat of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since July 1944 and had held the title of envoy since 1951 when, at the end of October 1954, he was appointed Chief Italian Delegate to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. He took office in March 1955.
In May 1956 Casardi was appointed Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs of NATO. In this capacity he took over the business of Paul-Henri Spaak, who resigned on March 4, 1961, for several weeks in the spring of 1961. Dirk Stikker was elected General Secretary in mid-April 1961.
