International Organizations and their Headquarters
International Organisations and their Headquaters this section of general knowledge is very important for competitive exams like RRB, Railways, SSC, IAS,RBI, IBPS/SBI IBPS, Clerical, LIC etc.
Here is the list of some important International Organizations, Their Headquaters and Heads
List of International Organizations, Headquarters, and their Heads
| S.No. | Organizations | HeadQuarters | Founded | Head |
| 1 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington DC | 1944 | Kristalina Georgieva |
| 2 | World Bank | Washington DC | July 1944 | David Malpass |
| 3 | Multilateral Investment GuaranteeAgency (MIGA) | Washington DC | 1988 | Hiroshi Matano |
| 4 | International Finance Corporation (IFC) | Washington DC | 20 July 1956 | Makhtar Diop |
| 5 | International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) | Washington DC | 1966 | Meg Kinnear |
| 6 | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) | Washington DC | 1944 | David Malpass |
| 7 | International Development Association (IDA) | Washington DC | 24 September 1960 | Jim Yong Kim |
| 8 | United Nations Office on Drug & Crime (UNODC) | Vienna (Austria) | 1997 | Ghada Fathi Waly |
| 9 | United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) | Vienna (Austria) | 17 November 1966 | Li Yong |
| 10 | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) | Vienna (Austria) | 29 July 1957 | Rafael Mariano Grossi |
| 11 | United Nations office for outer space affairs (UNOOSA) | Vienna (Austria) | 13 December 1958 | Simonetta Di Pippo |
| 12 | Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | Vienna (Austria) | September 1960 | Mohammed Sanuci Barkindo |
| 13 | Comprenensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) | Vienna (Austria) | 19 November 1996 | Dr Robert Floyd |
| 14 | Food & Agriculture Organisation of United Nations (FAO) | Rome (Italy) | 16 October 1945 | Qu Dongyu |
| 15 | International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAO) | Rome (Italy) | December 1977 | Gilbert Houngbo, Kanayo F. Nwanze |
| 16 | World Food Programme (WFP) | Rome (Italy) | 1961 | David Beasley |
| 17 | European Union (EU) | Brussels (Belgium) | 1 November 1993 | —– |
| 18 | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) | Brussels (Belgium) | 4 April 1949 | Jens Stoltenberg |
| 19 | World Customs Organisation (WCO) | Brussels (Belgium) | 26 January 1952 | Kunio Mi Kuriya |
| 20 | International Customs Tariffs Bureau (BUD) | Brussels (Belgium) | —– | Robert McFarlane |
| 21 | United Nations Organisation (UNO) | New York (USA) | 24 October 1945 | Antonio Guterres |
| 22 | United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) | New York (USA) | 1969 | Natalia Kanem |
| 23 | UN Women (United Nation Women) | New York (USA) | July 2010 | Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka |
| 24 | United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) | New York (USA) | 11 December 1946 | Henrietta H. Fore |
| 25 | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | New York (USA) | 22 November 1965 | Achim Steiner |
| 26 | International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 23 February 1947 | Eddy Njoroge |
| 27 | International Committee on Red Cross | Geneva (Switzerland) | 17 February 1863 | Peter Maurer |
| 28 | International Tele Communication Union (ITU) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 17 May 1865 | Houlin Zhao |
| 29 | World Trade Organisation (WTO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 1 January 1995 | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
| 30 | United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 15 March 2006 | Choi Kyong-lim |
| 31 | World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 14 July 1967 | Daren Tang |
| 32 | United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 30 December 1964 | Rebeca Grynspan |
| 33 | World Economic Forum (WEF) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 24 January 1971 | Justin Adams |
| 34 | International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development (ICTSD) | Geneva (Switzerland) | September 1996 | Mr Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz |
| 35 | World Nature Organisation (WNO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | May 2014 | —– |
| 36 | World Health Organisation (WHO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 7 April 1948 | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
| 37 | World Metcorlogical Organisation (WMO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 23 March 1950 | David Grimes |
| 38 | International Labour Organisation (ILO) | Geneva (Switzerland) | 1919 | Guy Ryder |
| 39 | Amnesty International | London | July 1961 | Dr. Agnès Callamard (Secretary General) |
| 40 | Common Wealth of Nations | London | 28 April 1949 | Head Queen Elizabeth-II & Secretary General Kalamlesh Sharma |
| 41 | Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IORA) | Ebene, Mauritius | 1995 | Dr Gatot Hari Gunawan |
| 42 | International Hockey Federation (FIH) | Lausanne (Switzerland) | 7 January 1924 | Thierry Weil (CEO) |
| 43 | Common Wealth Heads of Government Meet (CHOGM) | Landon | — | Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda (Chairperson) |
| 44 | World Energy Council (WEC) | London | 11 July 1924 | Christoph Frei |
| 45 | International Maritime Organisation (IMO) | London | 17 March 1948 | Kitack Lim |
| 46 | European for Reconstructions Development (EBRD) | London | 1991 | Christoph Denk (M.D.) |
| 47 | International Council on Monuments & Sites (ICOMOS) | Paris (France) | 1965 | Teresa Patricio (President); Mario Santana (Secretary General) |
| 48 | United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Paris (France) Organisation (UNESCO) | Paris (France) | 1945 | Irina, Bokova, Audrey Azoulay |
| 49 | International Energy Agency (IEA) | Paris (France) | November 1974 | Dr .Fatih Birol |
| 50 | Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) | Paris (France) | 30 September 1961 | Mathias Cormann |
| 51 | Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) | The Hague (Netherland) | 29 April 1997 | Fernando Arias |
| 52 | International Court of Justice (ICJ) | The Hague (Netherland) | 26 June 1945 | Joan Donoghue |
| 53 | International Criminal Court (ICC) | The Hague (Netherland) | 1 July 2002 | Judge Piotr Hofmański |
| 54 | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) | Kathmandu (Nepal) | 8 December 1985 | Esala Weerakoon |
| 55 | Universal Postal Union (UPU) | Bern, Switzerland | 9 October 1874 | Bishar Abdirahman Hussein |
| 56 | Transparency International | Berlin, Germany | 4 May 1993 | Daniel Eriksson (M.D.) |
| 57 | International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) | Abu Dhabi (UAE) | 26 January 2009 | Francesco La Camera |
| 58 | Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) | Jakarta | 8 August 1967 | Lim Jock Hoi |
| 59 | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) | Singapore | November 1989 | Rebecca Sta Maria |
| 60 | Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) | Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) | 25 September 1969 | Yousef Al-Othaimeen |
| 61 | Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) | Gland (Switzerland) | 29 April 1961 | Marco Lambertini |
| 62 | International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Gland (Switzerland) | 5 October 1948 | Bruno Oberle |
| 63 | International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) | Zurich (Switzerland) | 1919 | Christopher M.A. Brett |
| 64 | Federation Internationale De Football Association (FIFA) | Zurich (Switzerland) | 21 May 1904 | Giaani Infantino |
| 65 | International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) | Monaco | 21 June 1921 | Dr. Mathias Jonas |
| 66 | International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) | Monaco | 17 July 1912 | Sebastian Coe |
| 67 | International Cricket Council (ICC) | Dubai (UAE) | 15 June 1909 | Greg Barclay |
| 68 | Federation Internationale De Echecs (FIDE) or World Chess Federation | Lausanne, Switzerland | July 20, 1920 | Kirsan Ilyumzhinov |
| 69 | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) | Los Angles (USA) | 18 September 1998 | Goran Marby |
| 70 | International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) | Munich (Germany) | 1907 | Vladimir Lisin |
| 71 | International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) | Montreal (Canada) | 4 April 1947 | Juan Carlos Salazar |
| 72 | Asian Development Bank (ADB) | Manila (Philippines) | 19 December 1966 | Masatsugu Asakawa |
| 73 | African Development Bank (AFDB) | Abidjan Ivory Coast | 10 September 1964 | Akinwumi Adesina |
| 74 | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) | Beijing (China) | 16 January 2016 | Jin Liqun |
| 75 | Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) | Baijing (China) | 15 June 2001 | Vladimir Norov (Uzbekistan) and Jumakhon Giyosov (Tajikistan) |
| 76 | New Development Bank (NDB) | Shanghai (China) | 15 July 2014 | Marcos Prado Troyjo |
| 77 | United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) | Madrid (Spain) | 1 November 1975 | Zurab Pololikashvili |
| 78 | United Nations University (UNU) | Tokyo (Japan) | 1973 | David M. Malone |
| 79 | Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Dhaka Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) | Bangladesh | 6 June 1997 | Tenzin Lekphell (Bhutan) |