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Fact Sheet: List of Current Heads of International Organisations

April 7th, 2010

Last Updated: January 31, 2012

  • African Development Bank: President: Donald Kaberuka, Rwanda (2005)
  • African Union: Chairperson: Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya (2009-2010) , Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi (2010)
  • African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP): Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas (Ghana) (Since March 4, 2010)
  • Andean Community: Secretary-General: Freddy Ehlers Zurita (Ecuador), (2007)
  • Antarctic Treaty : Executive Secretary: Jan Huber, Netherlands (2004)
  • Arab League: Secretary-General: Amr Moussa, Egypt (2001)
  • Arab Maghreb Union : Secretary-General: Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006)
  • Asian Development Bank: President: Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan (2005)
  • Asian Football Confederation (AFC) : President: Mohamed bin Hammam, Qatar (2002)
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) : Executive Director: Tran Trong Toan, Vietnam (2006)
  • Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Secretary-General: Surin Pitsuwan, Thailand (2008)
  • Caribbean Community: Secretary-General: Edwin Carrington, Trinidad and Tobago (1992)
  • Central American Parliament: President: Julio Palacios, Panama (2005)
  • Colombo Plan: Secretary-General: Patricia Yoon-Moi Chia, Malaysia (2007)
  • Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA): Secretary-General: Sindiso Ngwenya, Kenya (2008)
  • Commonwealth of Independent States : Executive Secretary: Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007)
  • Commonwealth of Nations: Head: Queen Elizabeth II (1952) , Secretary-General: Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008)
  • Council of Europe : Secretary General: Thorbjørn Jagland, Norway (2009)
  • East African Community: Secretary-General: Juma Volter Mwapachu, Tanzania (2006)
  • European Bank for Reconstruction and Development : President: Thomas Mirow, Germany (2008)
  • European Free Trade Association: Secretary-General: Kåre Bryn, Norway (2006)
  • European Ombudsman: Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greece (2003)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization : Director-General: Jacques Diouf, Senegal (1994)
  • Group of Eight (G8) : President (informal): Stephen Harper, Canada (2010)
  • Gulf Cooperation Council : Secretary-General: Abdul Rahman ibn Hamad al-Attiyah, Qatar (2002)
  • European Council President: Herman Van Rompuy (2009)
  • Indian Ocean Commission : Secretary-General: Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso, Madagascar (2004)
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) : President: Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005)
  • International Atomic Energy Agency : Director-General: Yukiya Amano, Japan (2009)
  • International Civil Aviation Organization : President of the Council: Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006)
  • International Committee of the Red Cross : President: Jakob Kellenberger, Switzerland (2000)
  • International Court of Justice : President: Rosalyn Higgins, United Kingdom (2006)
  • International Criminal Court : President: Song Sang-Hyun, South Korea (2009)
  • International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) : Secretary-General: Ronald Noble, United States (2000) President: Khoo Boon Hui, Singapore (2008)
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies : President: Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro Rivero, Spain (2001)
  • International Labour Organization : Director-General: Juan Somavia, Chile (1999)
  • International Maritime Organization : Secretary-General: Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Greece (2004)
  • International Monetary Fund : Managing Director: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France (2007)
  • International Olympic Committee (IOC) : President: Jacques Rogge, Belgium (2001)
  • International Organization for Migration (IOM) : Director-general: William Lacy Swing, United States (2008)
  • International Rugby Board (IRB) : President: Syd Millar, Ireland (2003)
  • International Telecommunication Union : Secretary-General: Hamadoun Touré, Mali (2007)
  • Islamic Development Bank (IDB) : President: Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Saudi Arabia (1975)
  • Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) : President: Michel Platini, France (2007)
  • Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) : Chairman: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt (2009)
  • Nordic Council : Secretary-General: Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organisation : Secretary-General: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark (2009)
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Secretary-General: José Ángel Gurría, Mexico (2006)
  • Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States : Director-General: Len Ishmael, Saint Lucia (2003)
  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) : Secretary-General: Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, France (2005)
  • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) : Secretary-General: Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria, acting (2006)
  • Organization of the Islamic Conference: Secretary-General: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Turkey (2005)
  • Pacific Community : Director-General: Jimmie Rodgers, Solomon Islands (2006)
  • Pacific Islands Forum : Secretary-General: Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa (2008)
  • President of the European Central Bank: Jean-Claude Trichet, France (2003)
  • President of the European Commission: José Manuel Barroso, Portugal (2004)
  • President of the European Court of Auditors: Hubert Weber, Austria (2005)
  • President of the European Court of Human Rights: Jean-Paul Costa, France (2007)
  • President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ): Vassilios Skouris, Greece (2003)
  • President of the European Investment Bank (EIB): Philippe Maystadt, Belgium (2000)
  • President of the European Parliament: Josep Borrell, Spain (2004)
  • President of the Pan-African Parliament: Idriss Ndele Moussa, Chad (2009)
  • President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): Lluís Maria De Puig, Spain (2008)
  • Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy: Javier Solana, Spain (1999)
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) : Secretary-General: Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhistan (2007)
  • South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) : Secretary General : Sheel Kant Sharma
  • South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) : Chairman: Mahinda Rajapaksa
  • Southern African Development Community : Executive Secretary: Tomaz Salomão, Mozambique (2005)
  • Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) : Director of the Executive Secretariat: Reginaldo Braga Arcuri, Brazil (2003)
  • UN President of the General Assembly: Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaragua (2008)
  • Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul) : President: Rafael Correa, Ecuador (2009)
  • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) : Executive Director: Ann Veneman, United States (2005)
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Director-General: Irina Bokova, Bulgaria (2009)
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : High Commissioner: Louise Arbour, Canada (2004)
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) : High Commissioner: António Guterres, Portugal (2005)
  • United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) : Director-general: Carlos Alfredo Magariños, Argentina (2005)
  • United Nations Secretary : General: Ban Ki Moon, South Korea (2007)
  • Universal Postal Union : Director-General: Édouard Dayan, France (2005)
  • Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) : Secretary-General: Marino Busdachin, Italy (2003)
  • Western European Union : Secretary-General: Javier Solana, Spain (1999)
  • World Bank : President: Robert Zoellick, United States (2007)
  • World Food Programme (WFP) : Executive Director: James T. Morris, United States (2002)
  • World Health Organization (WHO) : Director-General: Margaret Chan, China (acting) (2007)
  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) : Director-General: Francis Gurry (2008)
  • World Meteorological Organization (WMO) : President: Alexander Bedritsky, Russia (2003)
  • World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) : Secretary-General : Francesco Frangialli, France (1996)
  • World Trade Organization (WTO) : Director-General: Pascal Lamy, France (2005)


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Anonymous said on April 7th, 2010

Thanks Sir!!!

Can you please provide a similar list for the Heads of Important Offices of India

Anonymous said on April 7th, 2010

thank you very much,
It would be very helpful if the location of the headquaters of these international organisations is also mentioned......

Deepak said on April 7th, 2010

Wonderful work sir!!

Can you provide the list of various govt organisations, govt departments and the ministries under which they are working.

Anonymous said on April 7th, 2010

Wow great effort...........thanx a ton.

- rahul

Anonymous said on April 7th, 2010

thank you very much

DIVYA said on April 8th, 2010

thanks sir..

also provide similar list of heads of nations also

Anonymous said on April 11th, 2010

please provide a similar list for the Heads of Important Offices of India

divya.r said on April 11th, 2010

thank u very much sir... great work

smriti said on May 11th, 2011

There are certain organisations whose heads have changed(for eg-INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE-HISAHI OWADA),kidly make the corrections.

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