List of International Organisation Heads – General Awareness Study Material & Notes
Hello fellow aspirants, here is a list of important International Organisations along with their heads and positions (as of October 2026). These show up in every banking exam and other papers now and then. Aspirants of various competitive exams especially banking and state PSC, UPSC, SSC,etc. would benefit with these.
Name of International Organisation |
Position |
Designation Holder |
|---|---|---|
| African Development Bank | President | Sidi Ould Tah |
| African Union Commission | Chairperson | Mahmoud Ali Youssouf |
| Amnesty International | Secretary-General | Agnès Callamard |
| ASEAN | Secretary-General | Kao Kim Hourn |
| Asian Development Bank (ADB) | President | Masato Kanda |
| Commonwealth | Secretary-General | Shirley Botchwey |
| European Commission | President | Ursula von der Leyen |
| European Council | President | António Costa |
| Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) | Director-General | Qu Dongyu |
| FIFA | President | Gianni Infantino |
| Gulf Co-operation Council | Secretary-General | Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi |
| World Athletics (formerly IAAF) | President | Sebastian Coe |
| International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) | Director-General | Rafael Mariano Grossi |
| International Court of Justice (ICJ) | President | Iwasawa Yuji |
| International Cricket Council (ICC) | President | Mustafa Kamal |
| International Cricket Council (ICC) | Chairman | Jay Shah |
| International Labour Organisation (ILO) | Director-General | Gilbert F. Houngbo |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Managing Director | Kristalina Georgieva |
| International Olympic Committee (IOC) | President | Kirsty Coventry |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) | Secretary-General | Mark Rutte |
| Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) | Secretary-General | Mathias Cormann |
| Organisation of American States | Secretary-General | Albert Ramdin |
| Organisation of Islamic Cooperation | Secretary-General | Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed |
| Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | Secretary-General | Haitham Al Ghais |
| South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) | Secretary-General | Md. Golam Sarwar |
| South-West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO) | President | Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah |
| UN High Commission for Human Rights | High Commissioner | Volker Türk |
| UN Human Rights Council | President | Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro |
| United Nation Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) | Directoral General | Khaled El-Enany |
| UNFPA | Executive Director | Diene Keita |
| United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) | Director-General | Gerd Müller |
| United Nations | Deputy Secretary-General | Amina J. Mohammed |
| United Nations Conference on Table and Development (UNCTAD) | Secretary-General | Mukhisa Kituyi |
| UN General Assembly | President | Khalilur Rahman |
| United Nations Development Programme | Administral | Alexander De Croo |
| United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) | Executive Director | Catherine Russell |
| United Nations Organisation | Secretary-General | António Guterres |
| World Health Organisation (WHO) | Director-General | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
| World Bank | President | Ajay Banga |
| World Bank | Vice President | Anil Sood |
| World Food Programmes | Head | Luke Lindberg |
| World Trade Organisation (WTO) | Director-General | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
Majority of the banking aspirants face a problem with questions regarding the International Organisation Heads. Such questions are considered tricky, because for answering them much revision and knowledge is required regarding the prominent international institutions and their heads.
We must point out here that, according to many gurus the candidates should not attempt such tricky questions. This is because, recalling the exact information which is required to answer the question is not highly rewarding. Even with this rider, it becomes important to master every possible type of information for excelling in todays’ competitive world. Therefore, the above list would be useful to such aspirants.