List of International Organizations

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 List of International Organizations

List of International Organizations and Their Headquarters

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Name of the Organization Abbreviations Headquarters Established Heads

year

United Nations Development UNDP New York City, USA 1965 Achim Steiner
Programme
United Nations Environment UNEP Nairobi, Kenya 1972 Inger Anderson
Programme
United Nations Population Fund UNFPA New York City, USA 1969 Natlia Kanem
United Nations Human UN-Habitat Nairobi, Kenya 1978 Maimunah Mohd
Settlement Programme sharif
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF New York City, USA 1946 Catherine M. Russell
World Food Programme WFP Rome, Italy 1961 David Beasley
Food and Agriculture FAO Rome, Italy 1945 Qu Dongyu
Organization
International Civil Aviation ICAO Montreal, Canada 1947 Salvatore
Organization Sciacchitano
International Fund for Agricultural IFAD Rome, Italy 1977 Gilbert Houngbo
Development
International Labour ILO Geneva, 1919 Guy Ryder
Organization Switzerland
International Monetary Fund IMF Washington, DC, 1944 Kristalina Georgieva
USA
International Maritime IMO London, United 1948 Kitack Lim
Organization Kingdom
International Telecommunication ITU Geneva, 1865 Houlin Zhao
Union Switzerland
United Nations Educational, UNESCO Paris, France 1945 Audery Azoulay
Scientific and Cultural
Organization
United Nations Industrial UNIDO Vienna, Austria 1966 Gerd Muller
Development Organization
World Tourism Organization UNWTO Madrid, Spain 1974 Zurab Pololikashvili
Universal Postal Union UPU Bern, Switzerland 1874 Masahiko Metoki

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World Health Organization WHO Geneva, 1948 Tedros Adhanom

Switzerland Ghebreyesus
World Intellectual Property WIPO Geneva, 1967 Daren Tang
Organization Switzerland
World Meteorological WMO Geneva, 1950 Gerhard Adrian
Organization Switzerland
World Bank Washington, DC, 1944 Anshula Kant
USA
Joint United Nations Programme UNAIDS Geneva, 1994 Ms Russell
on HIV/AIDS Switzerland
United Nations High UNHCR Geneva, 1950 –
Commissioner for Refugees Switzerland
United Nations Institute for UNIDIR Geneva, 1980 Robin Geiss
Disarmament Research Switzerland
United Nations Institute for UNITAR Geneva, 1963 Nikhil Seth
Training and Research Switzerland
United Nations Office for Project UNOPS Copenhagen, 1973 Grete Faremo
Services Denmark
United Nations Relief and Works UNRWA Amman, Jordan 1949 Philippe Lazzarini
Agency for Palestine Refugees
United Nations System Staff UNSSC Turin, Italy 2002 Jafar Javan
College
United Nations University UNU Tokyo, Japan 1973 James Cockayne
UN Women New York City, USA 2010 Sima Bahous
International Atomic Energy IAEA Vienna, Austria 1957 Rafael Mariano
Agency
International Organization for IOM Geneva, 1951 Antonio Vitorino
Migration Switzerland
Organization for the Prohibition of OPCW The Hague, 1997 Fernando Arias
Chemical Weapons Netherlands
United Nations Framework UNFCCC Bonn, Germany 1994 Patricia Espinosa
Convention on Climate Change (Signed in
1993)
World Trade Organization WTO Geneva, 1995 Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala
Switzerland
International Trade Centre ITC Geneva, 1964 Sanjiv Puri
Switzerland

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African Development Bank Group Abidjan, Cote 1964 Akinwumi Adesina

d'Ivoire
African Union AU Addis Abab, 2002 Moussa Faki
Ethiopia Mahamat
Amnesty International AI London, United 1961 Salil Shetty ( India)
Kingdom
Andean Community Lima, Peru 1969 Jorge Hernando
Arctic Council Tromso, Norway 1996 —
Asia-Pacific Economic APEC Queenstown, 1989 Rebecca Sta Maria
Cooperation Singapore
Asian Development Bank ADB Mandaluyong, 1966 Manila
Philippines
Association of Caribbean States ACS Port of Spain, 1994 Judith C. Giordan
Trinidad, Tobago
Association of Southeast Asian ASEAN Jakarta, Indonesia 1967 Lim Jock Hoi
Nations
Bank for International BIS Basel, Switzerland 1930 Ross Leckow
Settlements
Black Sea Economic Cooperation BSEC Istanbul, Turkey 1992 Lazer Comanescu
Caribbean Community CARICOM Georgetown, 1973 Hon Gaston Browne
Guyana
Central American Bank for Tegucigalpa, 1960 Dr. Dante Mossi
Economic Integration Honduras
Common Market for Eastern and COMESA Lusaka, Zambia 1994 Hery
Southern Africa Rajaonarimampiania
Commonwealth Secretariat London, United 1965 Patricia Scotland
Kingdom
Council of Europe Strasbourg, France 1949 Chales Michel
Council of European CEMR Geneva, 1951 Stefano Bonaccini
Municipalities and Regions Switzerland
Council of the Baltic Sea States CBSS Stockholm, 1992 —
Switzerland
Economic Community of West ECOWAS Federal Capital 1975 Nana Akufo - Addo
African States Territory, Nigeria
European Bank for EBRD London, United 1991 Odile Renaud - Basso
Reconstruction and Kingdom
Development

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European Central Bank ECB Frankfurt, Germany 1998 Christine Lagarde

European Free Trade EFTA Geneva, 1960 Henri Getez
Association Switzerland
Association of European AWEPA Amsterdam, 1984 —-
Parliamentarians with Africa Netherlands
European Space Agency ESA Paris, France 1975 Josef Aschbacher
European Union EU Brussels, Belgium 1993 Charles Michel
Group of Eight G8 New York, USA 1975 Jair Bolsonaro
G-15 Summit – Geneva, 1990 Rajapaksa
Switzerland
Inter-American Development IDB Washington, DC, 1959 —
Bank USA
Intergovernmental Authority on IGAD Djibouti, Djibouti 1986 Dr. Workneh
Development Gebeyehu
International Atomic Energy IAEA Vienna, Austria 1957 Rafael Mariano Grossi
Agency
International Civil Aviation ICAO Montreal, Canada 1947 Salvatore
Organization Sciacchitano
International Chamber of ICC Paris, France 1919 Ajaypli Singh Banga
Commerce
International Committee of the ICRC Geneva, 1863 Peter Maurer
Red Cross Switzerland
International Court of Justice ICJ The Hague, 1945 Joan Donoghue
Netherlands
International Development IDA Washington, DC, 1960 Kristalina Georgieva
Association USA
International Federation of Red IFRC Geneva, 1919 Tadateru Konoe
Cross and Red Crescent Switzerland
Societies
International Finance IFC Washington, DC, 1956 Phillippe Le Houerou
Corporation USA
International Labour ILO Geneva, 1919 Guy Ryder
Organization Switzerland
International Olympic Committee IOC Lausanne, 1894 Thomas Bach
Switzerland
International Organization for ISO Geneva, 1947 Ulrika Francke
Standardization Switzerland

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International Peace Bureau IPB Geneva, 1891 Biden

Switzerland
International Seabed Authority ISA Kingston, Jamaica 1994 Francois Hollande
International Service for Human ISHR Geneva, 1984 Phil Lynch
Rights Switzerland
Inter-Parliamentary Union — Geneva, 1889 Saber Hossain
Switzerland Chowdhury
League of Arab States — Cairo, Egypt 1945 Ahmed Aboul gheit
Multilateral Investment MIGA Washington, DC, 1988 Hiroshi Matano
Guarantee Agency USA
The Non-Aligned Movement NAM Central Jakarta, 1961 —
Indonesia
Nordic Council of Ministers — Copenhagen, 1971 Paula Lehtomaki
Denmark
North Atlantic Treaty NATO Washington, DC, 1949 Jens Stoltenberg
Organization USA
Organisation for Economic Co- OECD Paris, France 1961 Mathias Corman
operation and Development
Organization for Security and Co- OSCE Vienna, Austria 1975 Zbigniew Rau
operation in Europe
Organization of Arab Petroleum OAPEC Kuwait, Middle East 1968 —
Exporting Countries
Organization of the Islamic OIC Jeddah, Saudi 1969 Hissein Brahim Taha
Conference Arabia
Organization of the Petroleum OPEC Vienna, Austria 1960 Haitham Al-Ghais
Exporting Countries
Secretariat of the Pacific SPC Noumea, New 1947 Stuart Minchin
Community Caledonia
South Asian Association for SAARC Kathmandu, Nepal 1985 Esla Ruwan
Regional Cooperation Weerakoon
Union Latina - Paris, France 1954 Oleg Serebrian
United Cities & Local UCLG Barcelona, Spain 2004 Ilsum Metshin
Governments
United Nations Economic and ESCAP Bangkok, Thailand 1947 Armida Salsiah
Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific
United Nations Economic and ESCWA Beirut, Lebanon 1973 Rola Dashti

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 List of International Organizations

Social Commission for Western

Asia
United Nations Environmental UNEP Nairobi, Kenya 1972 Inger Andersen
Program
United Nations Food and FAO Rome, Italy 1945 Qu Dongya
Agriculture Organization
United Nations High UNHCHR Geneva, 1993 Michelle Bachelet
Commissioner for Human Rights Switzerland and
New York City, USA
United Nations Office on Drugs UNODC Vienna, Austria 1997 Ghada Waly
and Crime
United Nations International INSTRAW Santo Domingo, 1975 —
Research and Training Institute Dominican Republic
for the Advancement of Women
United Nations Office for the OCHA Geneva, 1991 Matrin Griffiths
Coordination of Humanitarian Switzerland and
Affairs New York City, USA
United Nations Relief and Works UNRWA Amman, Jordan 1949 Philippe Lazzarini
Agency for Palestine Refugees in
the Near East
Western European Union WEU Paris, France 1954 –
World Federation of United WFUNA Geneva, 1946 Leonel Ferandez
Nations Associations Switzerland and Reyna
New York City, USA
World Organization Against OMCT Geneva, 1985 Gerald Staberock
Torture Switzerland
World Wide Fund for Nature WWF Gland, Switzerland 1961 Macro Lambertini

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