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UN organizations

• Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Director-General - Jacques Diouf, Senegal (1994-present)
• International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Director-General - Muhammad al-Baradei, Egypt (1997-present)
• International Civil Aviation Organization
  • President of the Council - Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006-present)
  • Secretary-General - Taïeb Chérif, Algeria (2003-present)
• International Labour Organization
  • Director-General - Juan Somavia, Chile (1999-present)
• United Nations
  • Secretary-General - Ban Ki Moon, South Korea (2007-present)
  • President of the General Assembly -
    1. Srgjan Asan Kerim, FYR Macedonia (2007-2008)
    2. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaragua (2008-present)
  • Security Council members - China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Belgium, Indonesia, Italy, Panama, South Africa (elected for 2007-2008); Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Lybia, Vietnam (elected for 2008-2009)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Executive Director - Ann Veneman, United States (2005-present)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Director-General - Koichiro Matsuura, Japan (1999-present)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • High Commissioner - Louise Arbour, Canada (2004-present)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • High Commissioner - António Guterres, Portugal (2005-present)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Director-general - Carlos Alfredo Magariños, Argentina (2005-present)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
  • Executive Director - James T. Morris, United States (2002-present)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Director-General - Margaret Chan, China (acting) (2007-present)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  • President - Alexander Bedritsky, Russia (2003-present)
  • Secretary-General - Michel Jarraud, France (2004-present)
• World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
  • Secretary-General - Francesco Frangialli, France (1996-present)

Political and economic organizations

• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) -
  • Secretary-General - John Kaputin, Papua New Guinea (2005-present)
• African Union -
  • Chairperson -
    1. John Kufuor, Ghana (2007-2008)
    2. Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania (2008-present)
  • Chairperson of the Commission -
    1. Alpha Oumar Konaré, Mali (2003-2008)
    2. Jean Ping, Gabon (2008-present)
  • President of the Pan-African Parliament - Gertrude Mongella, Tanzania (2004-present)
• Andean Community -
  • Secretary-General - Freddy Ehlers Zurita (Ecuador), (2007-present)
• Arab League -
  • Secretary-General - Amr Moussa, Egypt (2001-present)
• Arab Maghreb Union
  • Secretary-General - Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006-present)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  • Executive Director - Tran Trong Toan, Vietnam (2006-present)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -
  • Secretary-General - Surin Pitsuwan, Thailand (2008-present)
• Caribbean Community -
  • Secretary-General - Edwin Carrington, Trinidad and Tobago (1992-present)
• Central American Parliament -
  • President - Julio Palacios, Panama (2005-present)
• Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) -
  • Secretary-General -
    1. Erastus J.O. Mwencha, Kenya (1998-2008)
    2. Sindiso Ngwenya, Kenya (2008-present)
• Commonwealth of Nations -
  • Head - Queen Elizabeth II (1952-present)
  • Secretary-General -
    1. Don McKinnon, New Zealand (2000-2008)
    2. Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008-present)
• Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Executive Secretary - Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007-present)
• Council of Europe
  • Secretary General - Terry Davis, United Kingdom (2004-present)
  • President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - René van der Linden, Netherlands (2005-present)
  • President of the European Court of Human Rights - Jean-Paul Costa, France (2007-present)
• East African Community -
  • Secretary-General - Juma Volter Mwapachu, Tanzania (2006-present)
• Economic Community of West African States
  • President of the Comission - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2007-present)
  • Chairman -
    1. Blaise Compaoré, Burkina Faso (2007-2008)
    2. Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigeria (2008-present)
• Eurasian Economic Community
  • Secretary-General - Grigory Rapota, Russia (2002-present)
  • Chairman of the Interstate Council - Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan (2001-present)
• European Free Trade Association
  • Secretary-General - Kåre Bryn, Norway (2006-present)
• European Union (EU)
  • Presidency of the European Council -
    1. Slovenia (2008)
    2. France (2008)
  • President of the European Commission - José Manuel Barroso, Portugal (2004-present)
  • President of the European Parliament - Josep Borrell, Spain (2004-present)
  • Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy - Javier Solana, Spain (1999-present)
  • President of the European Central Bank - Jean-Claude Trichet, France (2003-present)
  • European Ombudsman - Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greece (2003-present)
  • President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) - Peter Straub, Germany (2004-present)
  • President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) - Philippe Maystadt, Belgium (2000-present)
  • President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - Vassilios Skouris, Greece (2003-present)
  • President of the European Court of Auditors - Hubert Weber, Austria (2005-present)
  • President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) - Anne-Marie Sigmund, Austria (2004-present)
• Group of Eight (G-8)
  • President (informal) - Yasuo Fukuda, Japan (2008)
• Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Secretary-General - Abdul Rahman ibn Hamad al-Attiyah, Qatar (2002-present)
• Ibero-American Secretariat (Segib)
  • Secretary-General - Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay (2005-present)
• Indian Ocean Commission
  • Secretary-General - Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso, Madagascar (2004-present)
• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
  • Chairman -
    1. Fidel Castro, Cuba (2006-2008)
    2. Raúl Castro, Cuba (2008-present)
• Nordic Council
  • Secretary-General - Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007-present)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  • Secretary-General - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (2004-present)
  • Supreme Allied Commander Europe - James L. Jones, United States (2003-present)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Secretary-General - José Ángel Gurría, Mexico (2006-present)
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
  • Secretary-General - Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, France (2005-present)
  • Chairman-in-Office - Karel De Gucht, Belgium (2006-present)
  • High Commissioner on National Minorities - Rolf Ekéus, Sweden (2001-present)
• Organization of American States
  • Secretary-General - José Miguel Insulza, Chile (2005-present)
• Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
  • Director-General - Len Ishmael, Saint Lucia (2003-present)
• Organization of the Islamic Conference
  • Secretary-General - Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Turkey (2005-present)
• Pacific Community
  • Director-General - Jimmie Rodgers, Solomon Islands (2006-present)
• Pacific Islands Forum
  • Secretary-General - Greg Urwin, Australia (2004-present)
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
  • Secretary-General - Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhistan (2007-present)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  • Secretary-General - Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji, Bhutan (2005-present)
• Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
  • Director of the Executive Secretariat - Reginaldo Braga Arcuri, Brazil (2003-present)
• Southern African Development Community
  • Executive Secretary - Tomaz Salomão, Mozambique (2005-present)
• Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul)
  • President - Michelle Bachelet, Chile (2008-present)
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
  • Secretary-General - Marino Busdachin, Italy (2003-present)
• Western European Union
  • Secretary-General - Javier Solana, Spain (1999-present)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • Director-General - Pascal Lamy, France (2005-present)

Financial organizations

• African Development Bank -
  • President - Donald Kaberuka, Rwanda (2005-present)
• Asian Development Bank -
  • President - Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan (2005-present)
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • President -
    1. Jean Lemierre, France (2000-2008)
    2. Thomas Mirow, Germany (2008-present)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
  • President - Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005-present)
• International Monetary Fund
  • Managing Director - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France (2007-present)
• Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
  • President - Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Saudi Arabia (1975-present)
• World Bank
  • President - Robert Zoellick, United States (2007-present)

Sports organizations

• Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
  • President - Mohamed bin Hammam, Qatar (2002-present)
• Confédération africaine de football (CAF)
  • President - Issa Hayatou, Cameroon (1988-present)
• Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
  • President - Jack A. Warner, Trinidad and Tobago (1990-present)
• Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)
  • President - Nicolas Leoz, Paraguay (1986-present)
• Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
  • President - Sepp Blatter, Switzerland (1998-present)
• International Olympic Committee (IOC)
  • President - Jacques Rogge, Belgium (2001-present)
• International Rugby Board (IRB)
  • President - Syd Millar, Ireland (2003-present)
• Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
  • President - Reynald Temarii, Tahiti (2004-present)
• Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
  • President - Michel Platini, France (2007-present)

Other organizations

• Antarctic Treaty
  • Executive Secretary - Jan Huber, Netherlands (2004-present)
• Colombo Plan -
  • Secretary-General - Patricia Yoon-Moi Chia, Malaysia (2007-present)
• Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
  • Executive Secretary -
    1. Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verde (2004-2008)
    2. Domingos Simões Pereira, Guinea-Bissau (2008-present)
• La Francophonie
  • Secretary-General - Abdou Diouf, Senegal (2003-present)
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  • Executive Secretary -
    1. Attalla Hamad Bashir, Sudan (2000-2008)
    2. Mahboub Maalim, Kenya (2008-present)
• International Court of Justice
  • President - Rosalyn Higgins, United Kingdom (2006-present)
• International Criminal Court
  • President - Philippe Kirsch, Canada (2003-present)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
  • Secretary-General - Ronald Noble, United States (2000-present)
  • President -
    1. Jackie Selebi, South Africa (2004-2008)
    2. Khoo Boon Hui , Singapore (2008-present)
• International Maritime Organization
  • Secretary-General - Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Greece (2004-present)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • Director-general -
    1. Brunson McKinley, United States (1998-2008)
    2. William Lacy Swing, United States (2008-present)
• International Telecommunication Union
  • Secretary-General - Hamadoun Touré, Mali (2007-present)
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
  • Director-General - Rogelio Pfirter, Argentina (2002-present)
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
  • Secretary-General -
    • Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria, acting (2006-present)
    • Mohammed S. Barkindo, Nigeria, acting for Daukoru (2006-present)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  • President - Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro Rivero, Spain (2001-present)
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  • President - Jakob Kellenberger, Switzerland (2000-present)
• Universal Postal Union
  • Director-General - Édouard Dayan, France (2005-present)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Director-General -
    1. Kamil Eltayed Idris, Sudan (1997-2008)
    2. Francis Gurry (2008-present)