List of international organization leaders in 2008

2007 international organization leaders - Events of 2008 - 2009 international organization leaders - International organization leaders by year----

See also:
*List of state leaders in 2008
*List of religious leaders in 2008
*List of colonial governors in 2008

UN organizations

*Food and Agriculture Organization
**Director-General - Jacques Diouf, Senegal (1994-present)
*International Atomic Energy Agency
**Director-General - Muhammad al-Baradei, Egypt (1997-present)
*International Civil Aviation Organization
**President of the Council - Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006-present)
**Secretary-General - Taïeb Chérif, Algeria (2003-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 -
**# Srgjan Asan Kerim, FYR Macedonia (2007-2008)
**# Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaragua (2008-present)
**Security Council members - China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Congo-Brazzaville, Ghana, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia (elected for 2006-2007)
*United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
**Executive Director - Ann Veneman, United States (2005-present)
*United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
**Director-General - Koichiro Matsuura, Japan (1999-present)
*United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
**High Commissioner - Louise Arbour, Canada (2004-present)
*United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
**High Commissioner - António Guterres, Portugal (2005-present)
*United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
**Director-general - Carlos Alfredo Magariños, Argentina (2005-present)
*World Food Programme (WFP)
**Executive Director - James T. Morris, United States (2002-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-present)

Political and economic organizations

*African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) -
**Secretary-General - John Kaputin, Papua New Guinea (2005-present)
*African Union -
**Chairperson -
**# John Kufuor, Ghana (2007-2008)
**# Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania (2008-present)
**Chairperson of the Commission -
**# Alpha Oumar Konaré, Mali (2003-2008)
**# Jean Ping, Gabon (2008-present)
**President of the Pan-African Parliament - Gertrude Mongella, Tanzania (2004-present)
*Andean Community -
** Secretary-General - Freddy Ehlers Zurita (Ecuador), (2007-present)
*Arab League -
**Secretary-General - Amr Moussa, Egypt (2001-present)
*Arab Maghreb Union
**Secretary-General - Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006-present)
*Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
**Executive Director - Tran Trong Toan, Vietnam (2006-present)
*Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -
**Secretary-General - Surin Pitsuwan, Thailand (2008-present)
*Caribbean Community -
**Secretary-General - Edwin Carrington, Trinidad and Tobago (1992-present)
*Central American Parliament -
**President - Julio Palacios, Panama (2005-present)
*Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) -
**Secretary-General - Erastus J.O. Mwencha, Kenya (1998-present)
*Commonwealth of Nations -
**Head - Queen Elizabeth II (1952-present)
**Secretary-General -
**# Don McKinnon, New Zealand (2000-2008)
**# Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008-present)
*Commonwealth of Independent States
**Executive Secretary - Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007-present)
*Council of Europe
**Secretary General - Terry Davis, United Kingdom (2004-present)
**President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - René van der Linden, Netherlands (2005-present)
**President of the European Court of Human Rights - Jean-Paul Costa, France (2007-present)
*East African Community -
**Secretary-General - Juma Volter Mwapachu, Tanzania (2006-present)
*Economic Community of West African States
**Executive Secretary - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2002-present)
**Chairman - Mamadou Tandja, Niger (2005-present)
*Eurasian Economic Community
**Secretary-General - Grigory Rapota, Russia (2002-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 -
**# Slovenia (2008)
**# France (2008)
**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 (G-8)
**President (informal) - Yasuo Fukuda, Japan (2008)
*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 -
**# Fidel Castro, Cuba (2006-2008)
**# Raúl Castro, Cuba (2008-present)
*Nordic Council
**Secretary-General - Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007-present)
*North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
**Secretary-General - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (2004-present)
**Supreme Allied Commander Europe - James L. Jones, United States (2003-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-present)
**Chairman-in-Office - Karel De Gucht, Belgium (2006-present)
**High Commissioner on National Minorities - Rolf Ekéus, Sweden (2001-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)
*Organization 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 - Greg Urwin, Australia (2004-present)
*Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
**Secretary-General - Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhistan (2007-present)
*South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
**Secretary-General - Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji, Bhutan (2005-present)
*Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
**Director of the Executive Secretariat - Reginaldo Braga Arcuri, Brazil (2003-present)
*Southern African Development Community
**Executive Secretary - Tomaz Salomão, Mozambique (2005-present)
*Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul)
**President - Michelle Bachelet, Chile (2008-present)
*Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
** Secretary-General - Marino Busdachin, Italy (2003-present)
*Western European Union
**Secretary-General - Javier Solana, Spain (1999-present)
*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 -
**# Jean Lemierre, France (2000-2008)
**# Thomas Mirow, Germany (2008-present)
*Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
**President - Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005-present)
*International Monetary Fund
**Managing Director - Rodrigo Rato, Spain (2004-present)
*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 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 - Kittipan Kanjanapipatkul, Thailand (2003-present)
*Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
**Executive Secretary - Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verde (2004-present)
*La Francophonie
**Secretary-General - Abdou Diouf, Senegal (2003-present)
*Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
**Executive Secretary - Attalla Hamad Bashir, Sudan (2000-present)
*International Court of Justice
**President - Rosalyn Higgins, United Kingdom (2006-present)
*International Criminal Court
**President - Philippe Kirsch, Canada (2003-present)
*International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
**Secretary-General - Ronald Noble, United States (2000-present)
**President - Jackie Selebi, South Africa (2004-present)
*International Maritime Organization
**Secretary-General - Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Greece (2004-present)
*International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Director-general - Brunson McKinley, United States (1998-present)
*International Telecommunication Union
**Secretary-General - Yoshio Utsumi, Japan (1999-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 - Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro Rivero, Spain (2001-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 -
**#Kamil Eltayed Idris, Sudan (1997-2008)
**#Francis Gurry (2008-present)