List of international organization leaders in 2006

2005 international organization leaders – Events of 2006 – 2007 international organization leaders – International organization leaders by year

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See also:

• List of state leaders in 2006
• List of religious leaders in 2006
• List of colonial governors in 2006

• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) –
  • Secretary-General – John Kaputin, Papua New Guinea (2005–present)
• African Development Bank –
  • President – Donald Kaberuka, Rwanda (2005–2010)
• African Union –
  • Chairperson –
    1. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria (2004–2006)
    2. Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Congo-Brazzaville (2006–2007)
  • Chairperson of the Commission – Alpha Oumar Konaré, Mali (2003–2008)
  • President of the Pan-African Parliament – Gertrude Mongella, Tanzania (2004–2009)
• Andean Community –
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Allan Wagner Tizón, Peru (2004–2006)
    2. Alfredo Fuentes Hernández (Colombia), interim (2006–2007)
• Antarctic Treaty
  • Executive Secretary – Jan Huber, Netherlands (2004–present)
• Arab League –
  • Secretary-General – Amr Moussa, Egypt (2001–2011)
• Arab Maghreb Union
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Habib Boularès, Tunisia (2002–2006)
    2. Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006–present)
• Asian Development Bank –
  • President – Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan (2005–present)
• Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
  • President – Mohamed bin Hammam, Qatar (2002–present)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  • Executive Director – Tran Trong Toan, Vietnam (2006)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) –
  • Secretary-General – Ong Keng Yong, Singapore (2003–2007)
• Caribbean Community –
  • Secretary-General – Edwin Carrington, Trinidad and Tobago (1992–2010)
• Central American Parliament –
  • President –
    1. Julio Palacios, Panama (2005–2006)
    2. Ciro Cepeda, El Salvador (2006–2007)
• Colombo Plan –
  • Secretary-General – Kittipan Kanjanapipatkul, Thailand (2003–2007)
• Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) –
  • Secretary-General – Erastus J.O. Mwencha, Kenya (1998–2008)
• Commonwealth of Nations –
  • Head – Queen Elizabeth II (1952–present)
  • Secretary-General – Don McKinnon, New Zealand (2000–2008)
• Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Executive Secretary – Vladimir Rushailo, Russia (2004–2007)
• Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
  • Executive Secretary – Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verde (2004–present)
• Confédération africaine de football (CAF)
  • President – Issa Hayatou, Cameroon (1988–present)
• Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
  • President – Jack A. Warner, Trinidad and Tobago (1990–present)
• Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)
  • President – Nicolas Leoz, Paraguay (1986–present)
• Council of Europe
  • Secretary General – Terry Davis, United Kingdom (2004–2009)
  • President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – René van der Linden, Netherlands (2005–2008)
  • President of the European Court of Human Rights – Luzius Wildhaber, Switzerland (1998–2007)
• East African Community –
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Nuwe Amanya Mushega, Uganda (2001–2006)
    2. Juma Volter Mwapachu, Tanzania (2006–2011)
• Economic Community of West African States
  • Executive Secretary – Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2002–2006)
  • Chairman – Mamadou Tandja, Niger (2005–2007)
• Eurasian Economic Community
  • Secretary-General – Grigory Rapota, Russia (2002–2007)
  • Chairman of the Interstate Council – Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan (2001–present)
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • President – Jean Lemierre, France (2000–2008)
• European Free Trade Association
  • Secretary-General –
    1. William Rossier, Switzerland (2000–2006)
    2. Kåre Bryn, Norway (2006–2012)
• European Union (EU)
  • Presidency of the European Council –
    1. Austria (2006)
    2. Finland (2006)
  • President of the European Commission – José Manuel Barroso, Portugal (2004–present)
  • President of the European Parliament – Josep Borrell, Spain (2004–present)
  • Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy – Javier Solana, Spain (1999–present)
  • President of the European Central Bank – Jean-Claude Trichet, France (2003–2011)
  • European Ombudsman – Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greece (2003–present)
  • President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) – Peter Straub, Germany (2004–present)
  • President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) – Philippe Maystadt, Belgium (2000–2011)
  • President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) – Vassilios Skouris, Greece (2003–present)
  • President of the European Court of Auditors – Hubert Weber, Austria (2005–present)
  • President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) – Anne-Marie Sigmund, Austria (2004–present)
• Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
  • President – Sepp Blatter, Switzerland (1998–present)
• Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Director-General – Jacques Diouf, Senegal (1994–2011)
• La Francophonie
  • Secretary-General – Abdou Diouf, Senegal (2003–present)
• Group of Eight (G-8)
  • President (informal) – Vladimir Putin, Russia (2006)
• Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Secretary-General – Abdul Rahman ibn Hamad al-Attiyah, Qatar (2002–2011)
• Ibero-American Secretariat (Segib)
  • Secretary-General – Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay (2005–present)
• Indian Ocean Commission
  • Secretary-General – Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso, Madagascar (2004–present)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
  • President – Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005–present)
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  • Executive Secretary – Attalla Hamad Bashir, Sudan (2000–2008)
• International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Director-General – Muhammad al-Baradei, Egypt (1997–present)
• International Civil Aviation Organization
  • President of the Council – Assad Kotaite, Lebanon (1976–2006), Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006–present)
  • Secretary-General – Taïeb Chérif, Algeria (2003–present)
• International Court of Justice
  • President –
    1. Shi Jiuyong, China (2003–2006)
    2. Rosalyn Higgins, United Kingdom (2006–present)
• International Criminal Court
  • President – Philippe Kirsch, Canada (2003–2009)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
  • Secretary-General – Ronald Noble, United States (2000–present)
  • President – Jackie Selebi, South Africa (2004–2008)
• International Labour Organization
  • Director-General – Juan Somavia, Chile (1999–present)
• International Maritime Organization
  • Secretary-General – Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Greece (2004–2011)
• International Monetary Fund
  • managing director – Rodrigo Rato, Spain (2004–2007)
• International Olympic Committee (IOC)
  • President – Jacques Rogge, Belgium (2001–present)
• International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  • President – Philip Craven, United Kingdom (2001–present)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • Director-general – Brunson McKinley, United States (1998–2008)
• International Rugby Board (IRB)
  • President – Syd Millar, Ireland (2003–2007)
• International Telecommunication Union
  • Secretary-General – Yoshio Utsumi, Japan (1999–2006)
• Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
  • President – Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Saudi Arabia (1975–present)
• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
  • Chairman –
    1. Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia (2003–2006)
    2. Fidel Castro, Cuba (2006–2008)
• Nordic Council
  • Secretary-General – Per Unckel, Sweden (2003–present)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
  • Secretary-General – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (2004–2009)
  • Supreme Allied Commander Europe – James L. Jones, United States (2003–present)
• Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
  • President – Reynald Temarii, Tahiti (2004–2010)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Secretary-General –
    1. Donald Johnston, Canada (1996–2006)
    2. José Ángel Gurría, Mexico (2006–present)
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
  • Secretary-General – Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, France (2005–2011)
  • Chairman-in-Office – Karel De Gucht, Belgium (2006)
  • High Commissioner on National Minorities – Rolf Ekéus, Sweden (2001–2007)
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
  • Director-General – Rogelio Pfirter, Argentina (2002–present)
• Organization of American States
  • Secretary-General – José Miguel Insulza, Chile (2005–present)
• Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
  • Director-General – Len Ishmael, Saint Lucia (2003–present)
• Organisation of the Islamic Conference
  • Secretary-General – Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Turkey (2005–2013)
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
  • Secretary-General – Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria (2006)
• Pacific Community
  • Director-General –
    1. Lourdes Pangelinan, Guam (2000–2006)
    2. Jimmie Rodgers, Solomon Islands (2006–present)
• Pacific Islands Forum
  • Secretary-General – Greg Urwin, Australia (2004–2008)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  • President – Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro Rivero, Spain (2001–present)
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  • President – Jakob Kellenberger, Switzerland (2000–present)
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
  • Secretary-General – Zhang Deguang, China (2004–2006)
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  • Secretary-General – Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji, Bhutan (2005–2008)
• Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
  • Director of the Executive Secretariat – Reginaldo Braga Arcuri, Brazil (2003–present)
• Southern African Development Community
  • Executive Secretary – Tomaz Salomão, Mozambique (2005–2013)
• Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
  • President – Lennart Johansson, Sweden (1990–2007)
• United Nations
  • Secretary-General – Kofi Annan, Ghana (1997–2006)
  • President of the General Assembly –
    1. Jan Eliasson, Sweden (2005–2006)
    2. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, Bahrain (2006–2007)
  • Security Council members – China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Tanzania (elected for 2005–2006); Congo-Brazzaville, Ghana, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia (elected for 2006–2007)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Executive Director – Ann Veneman, United States (2005–2010)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Director-General – Koichiro Matsuura, Japan (1999–2009)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • High Commissioner – Louise Arbour, Canada (2004–2008)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • High Commissioner – António Guterres, Portugal (2005–present)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Director-general – Kandeh Yumkella, Sierra Leone (2005–present)
• Universal Postal Union
  • Director-General – Édouard Dayan, France (2005–present)
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
  • Secretary-General – Marino Busdachin, Italy (2003–2010)
• Western European Union
  • Secretary-General – Javier Solana, Spain (1999–2009)
• World Bank
  • President – Paul Wolfowitz, United States (2005–2007)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
  • Executive Director – James T. Morris, United States (2002–2007)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Director-General –
    1. Lee Jong Wook, Republic of Korea (2003–2006)
    2. Anders Nordström, Sweden (acting) (2006)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Director-General – Kamil Eltayed Idris, Sudan (1997–2008)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  • President – Alexander Bedritsky, Russia (2003–present)
  • Secretary-General – Michel Jarraud, France (2004–present)
• World Tourism Organization (WToO)
  • Secretary-General – Francesco Frangialli, France (1996–2009)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • Director-General – Pascal Lamy, France (2005–present)