Organisations, Head Quarters and Their Chiefs

AGENCY/ORGANIZATION
AND YEAR ESTABLISHED
HEADQUARTERS CHIEF
United Nations Security

Council (1946)
New York, United

States of America






The presidency of the

Security Council is
held in turn by
members of the
Council in
alphabetical order of
their names. Each
President holds office for
one month.
United Nations General

Assembly (1945)
New York Vuk Jeremic (Serbia)
2012;
John William Ashe
(Antigua & Barbuda)
2013;
United Nations Secretariat
(1945)
New York Secretary General:

Ban Ki-

Moon (S. Korea)
International Court of

Justice (1945)
Peace Palace, Hague,

Netherlands
President: Peter

Tomka

(Slovakia)
International Criminal

Court (17
th
July 1998 or 1
st
July
2002)
The Hague,

Netherlands
President: Song Sang-

Hyun (S. Korea);
Prosecutor: Fatou
Bensuda (Gambia);
United Nations Economic

and Social Council (1945)
New York, USA President: 2012 - Milos
Koterek (Slovak Rep);
2013 Nestor Londono
(Colombia);






Food and Agriculture

Organisation (1945)
Rome, Italy Dir-Gen: Jose

Graziano da Silva

(Brazil)
International Civil

Aviation Organisation (4
th

April 1947)
Montreal, Canada Secy-Gen: Raymond

Benjamin (France)
International Labour

Organisation (1919)
Geneva, Switzerland Dir-Gen: Guy Ryder
(UK);
Ex:JuanSomavia(Chile)
International Maritime

Organisation (1959)
London, UK Secy-Gen: Koji

Sekimizu

(Japan)
International Fund for

Agricultural Development
(1977)
Rome, Italy President: Kanayo F.
Nwanze (Nigeria)
International Monetary

Fund (1945)
Washington DC, USA Managing Director:

Christine Lagarde

(France)
United Nations

Educational,

Social and Cultural

Organisation (1945)
Paris, France Dir-Gen: Irina Bokova

(Bulgaria) [First
woman DG
of UNESCO]
World Bank Group
(International Bank for
Reconstruction and
Development-IBRD,
International
Development
Association-IDA,
International Financial
Washington DC, USA Jim Yong Kim (S.
Korea)





Corporation-IFC, Multi-

lateral Investment Guarantee
Agency-MIGA and
International Centre for
Settlement of Investment

Disputes-ICSID) (1944)


































World Health

Organisation (1948)
Geneva, Switzerland Dir-Gen: Dr. Margaret

Chan (Hong Kong & USA)
World Intellectual

Property

Organisation (1967)
Geneva, Switzerland Dir-Gen: Francis

Gurry (Australia)
International Atomic

Energy

Agency (1957)
Vienna, Austria Dir-Gen: Yukio Amano
(Japan)
World Trade Organisation
(1995)
Geneva, Switzerland Dir-Gen: Pascal Lamy
(France)
United Nations Childrens
Emergency Fund (1946)
New York, USA Exec-Dir: Anthony

Lake (USA)
Association of South East

Asian Nations (1967)
Seat of Secretariat:

Jakarta,
Indonesia.
Secy-Gen: Le Luong Minh
(Vietnam)

North Atlantic Treaty

Organisation (1949)
Brussels, Belgium Secy-Gen: Anders

Fogh
Rasmussen
(Denmark)




Greenpeace (1969-72)










Founded: Vancouver,
Canada
HQ: Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Exec-Dir: Kumi

Naidoo (S
Africa)
Chairman: Ana Toni
(Brazil) preceded by an
India, Lalita Ramdas
International Criminal

Police Organisation or

Interpol (1923)
Lyon, France President: Mireille

Ballestrazzi (France,
first ever
woman president) Secy-
Gen: Ronald
Noble
(USA)
European Union

European Council

European Commission

European Parliament


Belgium President: Herman

Von Rompuy

(Belgium)

President:
Hose
Manuel
Barosso
(Portugal)

President: Martin

Schulz

(Germany)
European Organisation for

Nuclear Research or CERN
(1954)
Geneva, Switzerland Dir-Gen: Rolf Dieter

Heuer (Germany)


The Commonwealth,
(Balfour Declaration 1926,
Statute of Westminster 1931,
London Declaration 1949)















London, UK














Head: Queen

Elizabeth II

Secy-Gen: Kamalesh

Sharma (India)
Chairperson in Office:
Julian Gillard (Australia)
Non Aligned Movement (1961) Founded: Belgrade,

Serbia Chairperson
Country/Last host of
summit: Iran
Mahmoud

Ahmedinejad (Iran)
South Asian Association

for

Regional Co-operation (1985)
Kathmandu, Nepal Chairman:

Mohammad Waheed
Hassan Manik (Maldives)
Secy-Gen: Ahmad

Saleem

(Maldives)
Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development
(1948 or 1961)
Paris, France Secy-Gen: Jose Angel

Gurria

(Mexico)


Organisation of Petroleum

Exporting Countries (1960-61)
Vienna, Austria Secy-Gen: Abdallah

Salem el- Badri

(Libya)
Amnesty International (1961) London, UK Secy Gen: Salil Shetty

(India)
International Red Cross

and Red Crescent Movement
(earlier known as The Red Cross
Movement)
Geneva, Switzerland President: Tadateru

Kono (Japan)



FURTHER READING:

1
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE UNSC http://www.un.org/docs/sc/unsc_background.html


2
SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCIES: http://www.un.org/sc/presidency.asp


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SECRETARIAT: http://www.un.org/en/mainbodies/secretariat/index.shtml

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FOR MORE ON THE ICJ: http://www.icj-
cij.org/information/index.php?p1=7&phpsessid=b2d53b300084b722e9d7
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