Important Organisations of the World

Name of the Organisation	Year of Establishment	Headquarters	Headed by	Extra Info
1.       United Nations Organisation (UNO)		New York, USA	Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General; Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General
2.       United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF)		New York, USA	Anthony Lake, CEO
3.       United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD)		Geneva, Switzerland	Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary General
4.       World Health Organisation (WHO)		Geneva, Switzerland	Margaret Chan, Director General
5.       International Labour Organisation (ILO)		Geneva, Switzerland	Guy Ryder
6.       World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)		Geneva, Switzerland
7.       World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)		Geneva, Switzerland
8.       International Standards Organisation (ISO)		Geneva, Switzerland
9.       International Monetary Fund (IMF)		Washington DC, USA	Christine Lagarde, CEO
10.   World Bank		Washington DC, USA	Jim Yong Kim, President
11.   United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)		Paris, France	Irena Bokova, Chief
12.   Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)		Paris, France
13.   United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)		Vienna, Austria
14.   International Atomic Energy Efficiency (IAEA)		Vienna, Austria	Yukiya Amano, Director General
15.   Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)		Vienna, Austria	Abdallah Salem al Badri, CEO
16.   Amnesty International		London, UK
17.   Commonwealth of Nations		London, UK	Kamalesh Sarma, Secretary General
18.   International Maritime Organisation (IMO)		London, UK
19.   International Court of Justice (ICJ)		The Hague, Netherlands
20.   Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO)		Rome, Italy
21.   North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)		Brussels, Belgium	Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General
22.   Transparency International		Berlin, Germany
23.   South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)		Kathmandu, Nepal	Arjun Bahadur Thapa, Seretary General
24.   Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)		Jakarta, Indonesia	Le Lurong Minh, Secretary General
25.   Asia Pacific Economic Forum (APEC)		Singapore
26.   Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)		Jeddah
27.   Bank of Industrial Settlements		Basel, Switzerland	Jamie Caruana, CEO
28.   United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)		Nairobi, Kenya	Achim Steiner
29.   World Trade Organisation (WWTO)		Geneva, Switzerland	Roberto Azevedo, Director General
30.   Asian Development Bank (ADB)		Manila, Philippines	Takehiko Nakao, President