A to Z of Major International Organizations

International Organizations :

Organization	Head Quarters	Head	Founded
UN	New York, USA	Ban Ki Moon (Secretary Gen.) (First Secretary Gen- Trygve Lie) (Antonio Guterres - UN Sec. General to succeed Ban Ki Moon)	1945 (UN Day- 24thOct)
UNESCO	Paris, France	Irina Bokova	Nov. 16, 1945 (London, UK)
UNICEF	New York, USA	Anthony Lake	Dec. 11, 1946
FAO	Rome, Italy	Jose Graziano Da Silva	Oct. 16, 1945 (Quebec, Canada)
IMF	Washington DC, USA	Christine Lagarde	1946 (At Brettonwoods Conf. along with WBG)
World Bank Group	Washington DC, USA	Jim Yong Kim	1946
WTO	Geneva, Switzerland	Roberto Azevedo	1930 ( Founded as GATT - Peter Sutherland was the last Director Gen of GATT and first head of WTO)
ILO	Geneva, Switzerland	Guy Ryder	1919
WHO	Geneva, Switzerland	Dr. Margaret Chan	April 7, 1948
UNHRC	Geneva, Switzerland	Joachim Rücker	2006
WIPO	Geneva, Switzerland	Francis Gurry	1967
OECD	Paris, France	Angel Gurria	1961
IAEA	Vienna, Austria	Yukia Amano	1957
EU HQ	Brussels, Belgium	Donald Tusk and Jean Claude Juncker	Nov. 1, 1993(Maastricht, Netherlands)
NATO	Brussels, Belgium	Jens Stolenberg	1949
FIFA	Zurich, Switzerland	Gianni Infantino	1904 ( Paris, France)
ICC	Dubai, UAE	CEO- Dave Richardson Chairman- Shashank Manohar President- Zaheer Abbas	1909
IREA	Abu Dhabi, UAE	Adnan Amin	2009
SAARC	Kathmandu, Nepal	Arjun Bahadur Thapa	Dec. 8, 1985 (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Red Cross International	Geneva, Switzerland	President- Peter Maurer Sec. General-Yves Daccord (Founded by Henry Dunant)	1863
Amnesty International	London, UK	Salil Shetty	1961
UNIDO	Vienna, Austria	Li Yong	1966
International Court of Justice	The Hague, Netherlands	Ronny Abraham	1998 ( Rome, Italy)
UNEP	Nairobi, Kenya	Achim Steiner	1972 (Stockholm Conf. on Human Environment)
Commonwealth of Nations	London, UK	Secretary Gen. -Kamlesh Sharma	1931
International Standards Organization	Geneva, Austria	Kevin McKinley (Acting Secretary Gen.)	1947
ASEAN	Jakarta, Indonesia	Le Luong Minh	Aug. 8, 1967
BIMSTEC	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Nepal Sumit Nakandala – Secretary Gen	June 6, 1997
BRICS	-	-	May 16, 2008
OPEC	Vienna, Austria	Mohmmad Sanusi Barkindo
Intl. Olympic Committee	Laussane, Switzerland	Thomas Bach
AIIB	Beijing, China	Jin Liqun
National Development Bank - BRICS	Shanghai, China	K V Kamath
ADB	Manila, Philippines	Takehiko Nakao
INTERPOL	Lyon, France	Meng Hongwei
World Wild Life Fund	Gland, Switzerland	Marco Lambertini
UNDP	Geneva, Switzerland	Helen Clark
UNHCR (For Refugees)	Geneva, Switzerland	Fillipo Grandi
UNOCHA	New York	Stephen O’ Brien