List of Secretaries General of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

No.	Name	Country of origin	Took Office	Left Office
1	Tunku Abdul Rahman	Malaysia	1971	1974
2	Hassan Al-Touhami	Egypt	1974	1975
3	Amadou Karim Gaye	Senegal	1975	1979
4	Habib Chatty	Tunisia	1979	1984
5	Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada	Pakistan	1984	1988
6	Hamid Algabid	Niger	1988	1996
7	Azeddine Laraki	Morocco	1996	2000
8	Abdelouahed Belkeziz	Morocco	2000	2004
9	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	Turkey	2004	2014
10	Iyad bin Amin Madani	Saudi Arabia	2014

List of Secretaries General of Organization of American States

S.No.	Period	Name	Country
1	1948–1954	Alberto Lleras Camargo	Colombia
2	1954–1955	Carlos Dávila Died while in office	Chile
3	1956–1968	José A. Mora	Uruguay
4	1968–1975	Galo Plaza	Ecuador
5	1975–1984	Alejandro Orfila	Argentina
6	1984–1994	João Clemente Baena Soares	Brazil
7	1994–2004	César Gaviria Re-elected to a second term at the 1999 General Assembly	Colombia
8	15 September 2004 – 15 October 2004	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Resigned	Costa Rica
–	15 October 2004 – 26 May 2005	Luigi R. Einaudi (acting)	United States
9	26 May 2005 – present	José Miguel Insulza Elected 2 May 2005 (see:OAS Secretary General election, 2005)	Chile

List of Secretaries General of the European Commission

S.No.	Name	Start period	End period
1	Catherine Day	2005	Present
2	David O'Sullivan	2000	2005
3	Carlo Trojan	1997	2000
4	David Williamson, CB	1987	1997
5	Emile Noel	1957	1987

International Organisations and their Headquarters

Organisation	Headquarters
UNO	New York
UNICEF	New York
UNESCO	Paris
UNIDO	Vienna
WHO	Geneva
UNFPA	New York
ILO	Geneva
IMF	Washington DC
WTO	Geneva
International Court Of Justice	The Hague
International Atomic Energy Agency	Vienna
World Bank	Washington D.C.
International Committee of the Red Cross	Geneva
International Maritime Organisation	London
Universal Postal Union	Berne
Food and Agricultural Organisation	Rome
World Meteorological Organisation	Geneva
SAARC	Kathmandu
Amnesty International	London
Transparency International	Berlin
World Intellectual Property Organization	Geneva
International Renewable Energy Agency	Abu Dhabi (UAE) (Interim HQs)
Commonwealth of Nations	London
International Standards Organisation	Geneva

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

The Common Wealth	It was originally known as ‘The British Commonwealth of Nations’. It is an association of sovereign and independent states which formally made up the British Empire. Headquarters: London. Members: 53 The British Monarch (Queen Elizabeth II) is the symbolic head of the commonwealth. Commonwealth heads of government meet (CHOGM) is held in every 2 years.
Arab League	Established: March 22, 1945. Objective: To promote economic, social, political and military cooperation. Members: 22 Headquarters: Cairo
Asia Public Economic Corporation (APEC)	Established: Nov, 1989 Objective: To promote trade and investment in the Pacific basin. Members: 21
Asian Development Bank (ADB)	Established: Dec. 19, 1966 Objective: To promote regional economic cooperation. Members: 59 Headquarters: Manila
Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)	Established: Aug. 8, 1967 Objective: Regional, economic, social and cultural cooperation among the non-communist countries of South-East Asia. Members: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia. Headquarters: Djakarta.
Common Wealth of Independent States (CIS)	Established: Dec. 8, 1991 Objective: To coordinate inter-common wealth relations and to provide a mechanism for the orderly dissolution on the USSR. Members: 12 Headquarters: Kirava (Belarus)
Group of 8 or G-8	Established: Sept. 22, 1985 Objective: To promote co-operation among major non-communist economic powers. Members: France, Germany, Japan, UK, US, Canada, Italy, Plus Russia (added later).
Group of 15 or G-15	Established: 1889 Objective: To promote economic co-operation among developing nations. Members: 18

Group of 77 or G-77	Established: Oct. 1967 Objective: To promote economic co-operation among developing nations. Members: 130
International Criminal Police Organization For (INTERPOL)	Established: 1914 Objective: To promote the international cooperation among criminal police authorities. Members: 186 Headquarters: France.
International Olympic Committee (IOC)	Established: June 23, 1894 Objective: To promote the Olympic ideals and administer Olympic Games. Members: 203 Headquarters: Switzerland.
International Organization For Standardization (ISO)	Established: Feb., 1947 Objective: To promote development of international standards. Members: 158 Headquarters: Switzerland.
International Red Cross And Crescent Movement	Established: 1928 Objective: To promote worldwide humanitarian aid. Headquarters: Geneva.
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)	Established: Sep., 1961 Objective: Political co-operation and separate itself from both USA and USSR (in the cold-war era). Members: 118 The credit of evolving the concept goes to Pt. Jawahar lal Nehru. The other contributors were Marshal Tito (President of Yugoslavia), Dr. Sukamo (President of Indonesia) and General Nasser (President of Egypt). Bandung conference in Indonesia became the forum for the birth of NAM.
European Union	Established: Apr.8, 1965. Effective on July 1, 1967 Objective: To create a united Europe in which member countries would have such strong economic and political bonds that war would cease to be a recurring fact. Members: 27 (The ten new countries which joined in 2004 are Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slavakia and Slovania). Bulgaria & Romania joined in 2007. Headquarters: Brussels (Belgium). The common European, currency, Euro, was launched on Jan. 1, 1999
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)	Established: April 4, 1949 Objective: Mutual defense and cooperation Members: 26 + Russia Headquarters: Brussels
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	Established: Sept,1959 Objective: Attempts to set world prices by controlling oil production and also persues member interest in trade and development. Members: 12 (Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, UAE, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Angola and Venezuela). Headquarters: Vienna (Austria).
South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation (SAARC)	Established: Dec. 8, 1985 Objective: To promote economic, social and cultural cooperation. Members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Srilanka, Afghanistan. Headquarters: Katmandu.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)	Established: Oct. 11, 1947, Effective from April 4, 1951. Objective: Specialized UN Agency concerned with meteorological cooperation. Members: 162 Headquarters: Geneva
Amnesty International (AI)	Established: 1961 Objective: To keep a watch over human rights violation worldwide. Headquarters: London Got Nobel Prize in 1977 for Peace.
Organization Of The Islamic Conference (OIC)	Established: 1969 Objective: To promote Islamic solidarity among member states and to consolidate cooperation among members. Members: 57 Headquarters: Saudi Arabia.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)	Established: June 7, 2002. Objective: To develop mutual cooperation. Members: Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghiztan and Tajikistan.
Scouts and Guides	Established: 1907 by Lt. Gen. Baden Powell. Objective: To encourage good character, loyalty to god and country, service to other people and physical and mental fitness. Members: About 13 million members of around 115 nations. World Scouts Bureau: Geneva (Switzerland).
World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF)	Established: Sept. 11, 1961 Objective: To save the wildlife from extinction Members: All the countries of the world Headquarters: Gland (Switzerland)

International Environmental Organisations

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (External website that opens in a new window)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (External website that opens in a new window)
• Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) (External website that opens in a new window)
• Global Environment Facility (GEF) (External website that opens in a new window)
• Economic and Social Council for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) (External website that opens in a new window)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (External website that opens in a new window)
• South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP)