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Henri Laugier (5 August 1888 – 19 January 1973) was a French scholar. He served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1939 to 1940 and from 1943 to 1944.
Henri Laugier was born on 5 August 1888.[1] He studied medicine, but dropped out of university to serve in the First World War.[1] After the war, he returned to university and received a PhD.[1]
Laugier started his career as a researcher for the Fondation Dosne-Thiers.[2] He taught Physiology of Work at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers from 1930 to 1937.[1] He became Assistant Professor at the University of Paris in 1937.[1] He worked for Minister Yvon Delbos in 1938.[2] At the outset of World War II, he left for Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently French Algeria.[1]
Laugier served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1939 to 1940 and from 1943 to 1944.[2][3]
Laugier was appointed as the Assistant-Secretary-General for Social Affairs at the United Nations in 1946.[2] During his period in office, he was involved in the process of drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,[2] having opened the preparatory meeting of the Commission on Human Rights.[4]
He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.[5][6] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.[7]
Laugier died in 1973.[1]