Organisations, Head Quarters and Their

Chiefs
ORGANISATIONS,
AGENCIES,
ORGANS
United Nations Security
Council1

HEADQUARTERS

HEAD

New York, USA

United Nations General

Assembly
United Nations Secretariat3

New York, USA

International Court of
Justice4

Peace Palace, The Hague,

Netherlands

The Presidency of the Security

Council is held in turn by the
members of the Security
Council in the English
alphabetical order of their
names. Each President holds
office for one calendar
month2.
President: Joseph Deiss (As on
Sept 2010)
Secretary General: Ban KiMoon (S. Korea)
President: Hisashi Owada
(Japan)

International Criminal
Court5
United Nations Economic
and Social Council6
Food and Agriculture
Organisation7

The Hague, Netherlands

International Civil Aviation

Organisation

Montreal, Canada

International Labour
Organisation8

Geneva, Switzerland

New York, USA

Ney York, USA

Rome, Italy

President: Song Sang-Hyun

(S. Korea)
President: His Excellency
Hamidon Ali (Malaysia)
Dir-Gen: Jacques Dioff
(Senegal)
Secy-Gen: Raymond
Benjamin (France)
(An Indian was once the SecyGen of ICAO. Who? When?)
Dir-Gen: Juan Somavia
(Chile)

For more info on the UNSC, visit http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_background.html

List of Security Council Presidency in 2010 http://www.un.org/sc/presidency.asp
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http://www.un.org/en/mainbodies/secretariat/index.shtml
4
For more info http://www.icjcij.org/information/index.php?p1=7&PHPSESSID=b2d53b300084b722e9d71663325f3764
5
More info http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/About+the+Court/
6
More info http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/about/index.shtml
7
More info http://www.fao.org/about/en/
2

International Maritime
Organisation9
International Fund for
Agricultural Development10
International Monetary
Fund11
United Nations Educational,
Social and Cultural
Organisation12
World Bank Group
(International Bank for
Reconstruction and
Development-IBRD,
International Development
Association-IDA,
International Financial
Corporation-IFC, Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency-MIGA
and International Centre for
Settlement of Investment
Disputes-ICSID)13
World Health
Organisation14
World Intellectual Property
Organisation15
International Atomic Energy
Agency16
World Trade Organisation17

London, UK
Rome, Italy
Washington DC, USA
Paris, France

Washington DC, USA

Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland
Vienna, Austria
Geneva, Switzerland

Secy-Gen: Efthimios E.
Mitropoulos (Greece)
President: Kanayo F. Nwanze
(Nigeria)
MD: Dominique Strauss Kahn
(France)
Dir-Gen: Irina Bokova
(Bulgaria) [First woman DG
of UNESCO
Robert B Zoellick (German
origins, but from USA)

Dir-Gen: Dr. Margaret Chan

(Hong Kong, China)
Dir-Gen: Francis Gurry
(Australia)
Dir-Gen: Yukio Amano
(Japan)
Dir-Gen: Pascal Lamy
(France)

More info http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/lang--en/index.htm

Not very important, but anyway, more info http://www.imo.org/About/Pages/Default.aspx#2
10
Again not very important. More info http://www.ifad.org/governance/index.htm
11
Important body. More info http://www.imf.org/external/about/overview.htm
12
More info http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/about-us/who-we-are/introducingunesco/
13
More info
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,pagePK:50004410~piPK:36602~
theSitePK:29708,00.html
14
More info http://www.who.int/about/en/
15
More info http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/what_is_wipo.html
16
More info http://www.iaea.org/About/index.html
17
More info http://www.wto.int/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm
9

United Nations Childrens

Fund18
Association of South East
Asian Nations19
North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation20
Greenpeace21

International Criminal
Police Organisation or
Interpol
European Union22
European Council23
European
Commission24
European
Parliament25
European Organisation for
Nuclear Research or
CERN27
The Commonwealth28

18

New York, USA

Seat of Secretariat: Jakarta,
Indonesia.
Brussels, Belgium
Founded: Vancouver, Canada
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Lyon, France

Belgium

Geneva, Switzerland

London, UK

Exec-Dir: Ann M Veneman

(USA)
Secy-Gen: Surin Pitsuwan
(Thailand)
Secy-Gen: Anders Fogh
Rasmussen (Denmark)
Exec-Dir: Kumi Naidoo (S
Africa)
Chairman: Lalita Ramdas
(India)
President: Khoo Boon Hui
(China)
Secy-Gen: Ronald Noble
(USA)
President: Herman
Von Rompuy26
(Belgium)
President: Jose Manuel
Barroso (Portugal)
President: Jerzy Buzec
(Poland)
Dir-Gen: Rolf Dieter Heuer
(Germany)
Head: Queen Elizabeth II
Secy-Gen: Kamalesh Sharma
(India)
Chairperson in Office29:
Kamla Persad Bissessar
(Trinidad and Tobago)

More info http://www.unicef.org/about/who/index_introduction.html

More info http://www.asean.org/about_ASEAN.html
20
More info http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/faq.htm
21
More info http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/
22
Theres way too much info on the official website. Just Google or Wiki EU for basic, grass-root
level understanding of this organization.
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More info http://www.european-council.europa.eu/the-institution.aspx?lang=en
24
Again, Google it.
25
Not very important. For info Google it. Not much available on the official site.
26
Hes the first long term and permanent president of the Council.
27
More info http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/About-en.html
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More info
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/191086/191247/the_commonwealth/
19

Non Aligned Movement

South Asian Association for
Regional Co-operation

Organisation for Economic

Co-operation and
Development30
Organisation of Petroleum
Exporting Countries31
Amnesty International32
International Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement
(earlier known as Red
Cross)

29

Founded: Belgrade, Serbia

Present HQ: Egypt.
Kathmandu, Nepal

Paris, France

Vienna, Austria
London, UK
Geneva, Switzerland

Secy-Gen: Hosni Mubarak

(Egypt)
Chairman: Mahinda Rajapaksa
(Sri Lanka)
Secy-Gen: Sheel Kant Sharma
(India)
Secy-Gen: Jose Angel Gurria
(Mexico)
Secy-Gen: Abdallah Salem elBadri (Libya)
Secy Gen: Salil Shetty (India)
President: Tadateru Kono
(Japan)

The primary responsibility of the Chairperson-in-Office is to host the CHOGM (CHOGM:

Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting)
30
More info http://www.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_36734052_36734103_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
31
More info http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/24.htm
32
More info http://www.amnesty.org/en/who-we-are/history