Organization |
Title |
Leader |
Country |
In office |
Ref
|
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) |
Secretary-general |
Mohamed Ibn Chambas |
Ghana |
2010–2013 |
[35][36]
|
African Union |
Chairperson |
Bingu wa Mutharika |
Malawi |
2009–2011 |
[37][38]
|
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo |
Equatorial Guinea |
2011–2012 |
[39][40]
|
Chairperson of the Commission |
Jean Ping |
Gabon |
2008–2012 |
[41][42][43]
|
President of the Pan-African Parliament |
Idriss Ndélé Moussa |
Chad |
2009–2012 |
[44]
|
Andean Community |
Secretary-general |
Adalid Contreras Baspineiro |
Bolivia |
2010-2011 (interim), 2011-2013 |
[45][46][47]
|
Arab League |
Secretary-general |
Amr Moussa |
Egypt |
2001–2011 |
[48][49]
|
Nabil Elaraby |
2011–2016 |
[50]
|
Arab Maghreb Union |
Secretary-general |
Habib Ben Yahia |
Tunisia |
2006–2016 |
[51][52]
|
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) |
Executive director |
Muhamad Noor |
Malaysia |
2010-2012 |
[53]
|
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
Secretary-general |
Surin Pitsuwan |
Thailand |
2008–2012 |
[54]
|
Caribbean Community |
Secretary-general |
Lolita Applewhaite |
Barbados |
2011 (acting) |
[55]
|
Irwin LaRocque |
Dominica |
2011-2021 |
[56]
|
Central American Parliament |
President |
Dorindo Cortéz |
Panama |
2010-2011 |
[57][58]
|
Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) |
Secretary-general |
Sindiso Ngwenya |
Zimbabwe |
2008-2018 |
[59][60]
|
Commonwealth of Nations |
Head |
Queen Elizabeth II |
United Kingdom |
1952–present |
[61][62]
|
Secretary-general |
Kamalesh Sharma |
India |
2008-2016 |
[63]
|
Commonwealth of Independent States |
Executive secretary |
Sergei Lebedev |
Russia |
2007–present |
[64][65]
|
Council of Europe |
Secretary General |
Thorbjørn Jagland |
Norway |
2009-2019 |
[66][67]
|
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) |
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu |
Turkey |
2010–2012 |
[68][69]
|
President of the European Court of Human Rights |
Jean-Paul Costa |
France |
2007-2011 |
[70]
|
Nicolas Bratza |
United Kingdom |
2011-2012 |
[71]
|
East African Community |
Secretary-general |
Juma Volter Mwapachu |
Tanzania |
2006–2011 |
[72][73]
|
Richard Sezibera |
Rwanda |
2011–2016 |
[74]
|
Economic Community of West African States |
President of the Commission |
James Victor Gbeho |
Ghana |
2010–2012 |
[75]
|
Chairman |
Goodluck Jonathan |
Nigeria |
2010–2012 |
[76][77]
|
Eurasian Economic Community |
Secretary-general |
Tair Mansurov |
Kazakhstan |
2007–2014 |
[78][79]
|
Chairman of the Interstate Council |
Nursultan Nazarbayev |
2001-2014 |
[80][81]
|
European Free Trade Association |
Secretary-general |
Kåre Bryn |
Norway |
2006–2012 |
[82]
|
European Union (EU) |
Presidency of the European Council |
Herman Van Rompuy |
Belgium |
2009–2014 |
[83]
|
Presidency of the Council of the European Union |
|
Hungary |
2011 |
[84]
|
|
Poland |
2011 |
[85]
|
President of the European Commission |
José Manuel Barroso |
Portugal |
2004–2014 |
[86]
|
President of the European Parliament |
Jerzy Buzek |
Poland |
2009–2012 |
[87][88]
|
Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy |
Catherine Ashton |
United Kingdom |
2009–2014 |
[89]
|
President of the European Central Bank |
Jean-Claude Trichet |
France |
2003–2011 |
[90]
|
Mario Draghi |
Italy |
2011–2019 |
[91]
|
European Ombudsman |
Nikiforos Diamandouros |
Greece |
2003–2013 |
[92]
|
President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) |
Mercedes Bresso |
Italy |
2010-2012 |
[93]
|
President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) |
Philippe Maystadt |
Belgium |
2000–2011 |
[94]
|
President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) |
Vassilios Skouris |
Greece |
2003–2015 |
[95]
|
President of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) |
Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira |
Portugal |
2008-2017 |
[96]
|
President of the Economic and Social Committee (EESC) |
Staffan Nilsson |
Sweden |
2010-2013 |
[97]
|
Group of Eight (G8) |
President (informal) |
|
France |
2011 |
[98]
|
Gulf Cooperation Council |
Secretary-general |
Abdul Rahman ibn Hamad al-Attiyah |
Qatar |
2002–2011 |
[99][100]
|
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani |
Bahrain |
2011-2020 |
[101]
|
Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) |
Secretary-general |
Enrique V. Iglesias |
Uruguay |
2005–2013 |
[102][103]
|
Indian Ocean Commission |
Secretary-general |
Callixte d'Offay |
Seychelles |
2008-2012 |
[104][105]
|
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) |
Chairman |
Hosni Mubarak |
Egypt |
2009-2011 |
[citation needed]
|
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi |
2011-2012 |
[citation needed]
|
Nordic Council |
President |
Henrik Dam Kristensen |
Denmark |
2011 |
[106]
|
Bertel Haarder |
[106]
|
Secretary-general |
Jan-Erik Enestam |
Finland |
2007–2013 |
[107]
|
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
Secretary-general |
Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
Denmark |
2009-2014 |
[108]
|
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
Secretary-general |
José Ángel Gurría |
Mexico |
2006–2021 |
[109]
|
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) |
Secretary-general |
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut |
France |
2005–2011 |
[110]
|
Lamberto Zannier |
Italy |
2011-2017 |
[111]
|
Chairman-in-Office |
Audronius Ažubalis |
Lithuania |
2011 |
[112]
|
High Commissioner on National Minorities |
Knut Vollebæk |
Norway |
2007–2013 |
[113]
|
Organization of American States |
Secretary-general |
José Miguel Insulza |
Chile |
2005-2015 |
[114]
|
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States |
Director-general |
Len Ishmael |
Saint Lucia |
2003–2013 |
[115]
|
Organisation of the Islamic Conference (from July 2011 known as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) (OIC) |
Secretary-general |
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu |
Turkey |
2005–2013 |
[116]
|
Pacific Community (SPC) |
Director-general |
Jimmie Rodgers |
Solomon Islands |
2006–2014 |
[117]
|
Pacific Islands Forum |
Secretary-general |
Tuiloma Neroni Slade |
Samoa |
2008-2014 |
[117]
|
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) |
Secretary-general |
Muratbek Imanaliyev |
Kyrgyzstan |
2010-2012 |
[118]
|
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) |
Secretary-general |
Sheel Kant Sharma |
India |
2008–2011 |
[119]
|
Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed |
Maldives |
2011–2012 |
[120]
|
Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) |
Director of the Executive Secretariat |
Agustín Colombo Sierra |
Argentina |
2010-2011 |
[121]
|
Southern African Development Community |
Executive secretary |
Tomaz Salomão |
Mozambique |
2005–2013 |
[122]
|
Union of South American Nations (USAN) |
President |
Bharrat Jagdeo |
Guyana |
2010–2011 |
[123]
|
Fernando Lugo |
Paraguay |
2011-2012 |
[124]
|
Secretary-general |
María Emma Mejía |
Colombia |
2011-2012 |
[125]
|
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) |
Secretary-general |
Marino Busdachin |
Italy |
2003-2018 |
[citation needed]
|
Western European Union |
Secretary-general |
Arnaud Jacomet |
France |
2009–2011 |
[citation needed]
|
World Trade Organization (WTO) |
Director-general |
Pascal Lamy |
France |
2005–2013 |
[126]
|