| Organization |
Title |
Leader |
Country |
In office |
Ref
|
| African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) |
Secretary-general |
Patrick Gomes |
Guyana |
2015–2020 |
[29]
|
| African Union |
Chairperson |
Idriss Déby |
Chad |
2016–2017 |
[30]
|
| Alpha Condé |
Guinea |
2017–2018 |
[31]
|
| Chairperson of the Commission |
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma |
South Africa |
2012–2017 |
[32]
|
| Moussa Faki |
Chad |
2017–present[needs update] |
[33]
|
| President of the Pan-African Parliament |
Roger Nkodo Dang |
Cameroon |
2015–2021 |
[34]
|
| Andean Community |
Secretary-general |
Walker San Miguel |
Bolivia |
2016–2017 |
[35][36]
|
| Arab League |
Secretary-general |
Ahmed Aboul Gheit |
Egypt |
2016–present |
[37][38]
|
| Arab Maghreb Union |
Secretary-general |
Taïeb Baccouche |
Tunisia |
2016–present[needs update] |
[39][40]
|
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) |
Executive director |
Alan Bollard |
New Zealand |
2013–2018 |
[41]
|
| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
Secretary-general |
Lê Lương Minh |
Vietnam |
2013–2017 |
[42]
|
| Caribbean Community |
Secretary-general |
Irwin LaRocque |
Dominica |
2011–2021 |
[43]
|
| Central American Parliament |
President |
Priscilla Weeden de Miró |
Panama |
2016–2017 |
[44]
|
| Tony Raful Tejada |
Dominican Republic |
2017–2018 |
[45]
|
| Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) |
Secretary-general |
Sindiso Ngwenya |
Zimbabwe |
2008–2018 |
[46][47]
|
| Commonwealth of Nations |
Head |
Queen Elizabeth II |
United Kingdom |
1952–present |
[48][49]
|
| Secretary-general |
Patricia Scotland |
2016–present |
[50]
|
| Commonwealth of Independent States |
Executive secretary |
Sergei Lebedev |
Russia |
2007–present |
[51][52]
|
| Council of Europe |
Secretary General |
Thorbjørn Jagland |
Norway |
2009–2019 |
[53][54]
|
| President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) |
Pedro Agramunt |
Spain |
2016–2017 |
[55]
|
| Stella Kyriakides |
Cyprus |
2017–2018 |
[56]
|
| President of the European Court of Human Rights |
Guido Raimondi |
Italy |
2015–2019 |
[57]
|
| East African Community |
Secretary-general |
Libérat Mfumukeko |
Burundi |
2015–2021 |
[58]
|
| Chairman |
John Magufuli |
Tanzania |
2015–2017 |
[59]
|
| Yoweri Museveni |
Uganda |
2017–2019 |
[60][61]
|
| Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) |
President of the Commission |
Marcel Alain de Souza |
Benin |
2016–2018 |
[62]
|
| Chairman |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
Liberia |
2016–2017 |
[63]
|
| Faure Gnassingbé |
Togo |
2017–2018 |
[63][64]
|
| European Free Trade Association |
Secretary-general |
Kristinn F. Árnason |
Iceland |
2012–2018 |
[65]
|
| European Union (EU) |
Presidency of the European Council |
Donald Tusk |
Poland |
2014–2019 |
[66]
|
| Presidency of the Council of the European Union |
|
Malta |
2017 |
[67]
|
|
Estonia |
[67]
|
| President of the European Commission |
Jean-Claude Juncker |
Luxembourg |
2014–2019 |
[68]
|
| President of the European Parliament |
Martin Schulz |
Germany |
2012–2017 |
[69]
|
| Antonio Tajani |
Italy |
2017–2019 |
[70]
|
| Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy |
Federica Mogherini |
2014–2019 |
[71]
|
| President of the European Central Bank |
Mario Draghi |
2011–2019 |
[72]
|
| European Ombudsman |
Emily O'Reilly |
Ireland |
2013–present[needs update] |
[73]
|
| President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) |
Markku Markkula |
Finland |
2015–2017 |
[74]
|
| Karl-Heinz Lambertz |
Belgium |
2017–2020 |
[75]
|
| President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) |
Werner Hoyer |
Germany |
2012–present |
[76][77]
|
| President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) |
Koen Lenaerts |
Belgium |
2015–present[needs update] |
[78]
|
| President of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) |
Klaus-Heiner Lehne |
Germany |
2016–present[needs update] |
[79]
|
| President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) |
Georges Dassis |
Greece |
2015–2018 |
[80]
|
| Group of Seven (G7) (Russia suspended from G8 in 2014) |
President (informal) |
|
Italy |
2017 |
[81]
|
| Gulf Cooperation Council |
Secretary-general |
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani |
Bahrain |
2011–2020 |
[82]
|
| Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) |
Secretary-general |
Rebeca Grynspan |
Costa Rica |
2014–2021 |
[83]
|
| Indian Ocean Commission |
Secretary-general |
Hamada Madi |
Comoros |
2016–2020 |
[84]
|
| Eurasian Economic Union |
Chairman |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
2017 |
[citation needed]
|
| Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) |
Chairman |
Nicolás Maduro |
Venezuela |
2016–2019 |
[85]
|
| Nordic Council |
President |
Britt Lundberg |
Finland |
2017 |
[86]
|
| Secretary-general |
Britt Bohlin |
Sweden |
2014–2021 |
[87]
|
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
Secretary-general |
Jens Stoltenberg |
Norway |
2014–present[needs update] |
[88][89]
|
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
Secretary-general |
José Ángel Gurría |
Mexico |
2006–2021 |
[90]
|
| Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) |
Secretary-general |
Lamberto Zannier |
Italy |
2011–2017 |
[91]
|
| Thomas Greminger |
Switzerland |
2017–2020 |
[92]
|
| Chairman-in-Office |
Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
Serbia |
2016 |
[93]
|
| Sebastian Kurz |
Austria |
2017 |
[94]
|
| Karin Kneissl |
2017 |
[95]
|
| High Commissioner on National Minorities |
Lamberto Zannier |
Italy |
2017–2020 |
[96]
|
| Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States |
Director-general |
Didacus Jules |
Saint Lucia |
2014–present[needs update] |
[97][98]
|
| Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) |
Secretary-general |
Yousef Al-Othaimeen |
Saudi Arabia |
2016–2020 |
[99]
|
| Pacific Community (SPC) |
Director-general |
Colin Tukuitonga |
Niue |
2014–2020 |
[100]
|
| Pacific Islands Forum |
Secretary-general |
Meg Taylor |
Papua New Guinea |
2014–2021 |
[101]
|
| Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) |
Secretary-general |
Rashid Alimov |
Tajikistan |
2016–2018 |
[102]
|
| South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) |
Secretary-general |
Arjun Bahadur Thapa |
Nepal |
2014–2017 |
[103]
|
| Amjad Hussain B. Sial |
Pakistan |
2017–2020 |
[citation needed]
|
| Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) |
Director of the Executive Secretariat |
Linda Rabbaglietti Love |
Uruguay |
2017–2018 |
[104]
|
| Southern African Development Community (SADC) |
Executive secretary |
Stergomena Tax |
Tanzania |
2013–2021 |
[105]
|
| Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) |
President |
Nicolás Maduro |
Venezuela |
2016–2017 |
[106]
|
| Mauricio Macri |
Argentina |
2017–2018 |
[106]
|
| Secretary-general |
Ernesto Samper |
Colombia |
2014–2017 |
[107]
|
| Position vacant |
|
|
2017–present |
[108]
|
| Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) |
Secretary-general |
Marino Busdachin |
Italy |
2003–2018 |
[citation needed]
|
| World Trade Organization (WTO) |
Director-general |
Roberto Azevêdo |
Brazil |
2013–2020 |
[109]
|