List of international organization leaders in 2009

2008 international organization leaders – Events of 2009 – 2010 international organization leaders – International organization leaders by year

UN organizations

• Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Director-General – Jacques Diouf, Senegal (1994–2011)
• International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Director-General –
  1. Muhammad al-Baradei, Egypt (1997–2009)
  2. Yukiya Amano, Japan (2009–present)
• International Civil Aviation Organization
  • President of the Council – Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006–present)
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Taïeb Chérif, Algeria (2003–2009)
    2. Raymond Benjamin, France (2009–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. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaragua (2008–2009)
    2. Ali Abdussalam Treki, Libya (2009–2010)
  • Security Council members – China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Libya, Vietnam (elected for 2008–2009); Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Uganda (elected for 2009–2010)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Executive Director – Ann Veneman, United States (2005–2010)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Director-General –
  1. Koichiro Matsuura, Japan (1999–2009)
  2. Irina Bokova, Bulgaria (2009–present)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • High Commissioner – Navanethem Pillay, South Africa (2008–present)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • High Commissioner – António Guterres, Portugal (2005–present)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Director-general – Kandeh Yumkella, Sierra Leone (2005–present)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
  • Executive Director – Josette Sheeran, United States (2007–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 (1996–2009)

Political and economic organizations

• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) –
  • Secretary-General – John Kaputin, Papua New Guinea (2005–2010)
• African Union –
  • Chairperson –
    1. Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania (2008–2009)
    2. Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya (2009–2010)
  • Chairperson of the Commission – Jean Ping, Gabon (2008–present)
  • President of the Pan-African Parliament –
    1. Gertrude Mongella, Tanzania (2004–2009)
    2. Idriss Ndele Moussa, Chad (2009–present)
• Andean Community –
  • Secretary-General – Freddy Ehlers Zurita (Ecuador), (2007–present)
• Arab League –
  • Secretary-General – Amr Moussa, Egypt (2001–2011)
• Arab Maghreb Union
  • Secretary-General – Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006–present)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  • Executive Director – Michael Tay, Singapore (2009)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) –
  • Secretary-General – Surin Pitsuwan, Thailand (2008–present)
• Caribbean Community –
  • Secretary-General – Edwin Carrington, Trinidad and Tobago (1992–2010)
• Central American Parliament –
  • President –
    1. Gloria Oquelí, Honduras (2008–2009)
    2. Jacinto Suárez, Nicaragua (2009–2010)
• Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) –
  • Secretary-General – Sindiso Ngwenya, Zimbabwe (2008–present)
• Commonwealth of Nations –
  • Head – Queen Elizabeth II (1952–present)
  • Secretary-General – Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008–present)
• Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Executive Secretary – Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007–present)
• Council of Europe
  • Secretary General –
    1. Terry Davis, United Kingdom (2004–2009)
    2. Thorbjørn Jagland, Norway (2009–present)
  • President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – Lluís Maria De Puig, Spain (2008–2010)
  • President of the European Court of Human Rights – Jean-Paul Costa, France (2007–present)
• East African Community –
  • Secretary-General – Juma Volter Mwapachu, Tanzania (2006–2011)
• Economic Community of West African States
  • President of the Commission – Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2007–2010)
  • Chairman – Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigeria (2008–2010)
• Eurasian Economic Community
  • Secretary-General – Tair Mansurov, Khazakstan (2007–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. Czech Republic (2009)
    2. Sweden (2009)
    3. Herman Van Rompuy (2009–present)
  • 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 (G8)
  • President (informal) – Silvio Berlusconi, Italy (2009)
• 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. Raúl Castro, Cuba (2008–2009)
    2. Hosni Mubarak, Egypt (2009–present)
• Nordic Council
  • Secretary-General – Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007–present)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (2004–2009)
    2. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark (2009–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 (2005–2011)
  • Chairman-in-Office –
    1. Dora Bakoyannis, Greece (2009)
    2. George Papandreou, Greece (2009)
  • High Commissioner on National Minorities – Knut Vollebæk, Norway (2007–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)
• Organisation 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 – Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa (2008–present)
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
  • Secretary-General – Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhistan (2007–present)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  • Secretary-General – Sheel Kant Sharma, India (2008–2011)
• Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
  • Director of the Executive Secretariat –
    1. Reginaldo Braga Arcuri, Brazil (2003–2009)
    2. Agustín Colombo Sierra, Argentina (2009–present)
• Southern African Development Community
  • Executive Secretary – Tomaz Salomão, Mozambique (2005–present)
• Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul)
  • President –
    1. Michelle Bachelet, Chile (2008–2009)
    2. Rafael Correa, Ecuador (2009–2010)
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
  • Secretary-General – Marino Busdachin, Italy (2003–2010)
• Western European Union
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Javier Solana, Spain (1999–2009)
    2. Arnaud Jacomet, France (2009–2011)
• 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 – Thomas Mirow, Germany (2008–present)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
  • President – Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005–present)
• International Monetary Fund
  • Managing Director – cristeen legard, France (2011–2016)
• 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 Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  • President – Philip Craven, United Kingdom (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 – Domingos Simões Pereira, Guinea-Bissau (2008–present)
• La Francophonie
  • Secretary-General – Abdou Diouf, Senegal (2003–present)
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  • Executive Secretary – Mahboub Maalim, Kenya (2008–present)
• International Court of Justice
  • President – Rosalyn Higgins, United Kingdom (2006–present)
• International Criminal Court
  • President –
    1. Philippe Kirsch, Canada (2003–2009)
    2. Song Sang-Hyun, South Korea (2009–present)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
  • Secretary-General – Ronald Noble, United States (2000–present)
  • President – Khoo Boon Hui, Singapore (2008–present)
• International Maritime Organization
  • Secretary-General – Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Greece (2004–present)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • Director-general – 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 –
    1. Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro Rivero, Spain (2001–2009)
    2. Tadateru Konoé, Japan (2009-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 – Francis Gurry (2008–present)