List of international organization leaders in 2003

The following is a list of international organization leaders in 2003.

UN organizations

Organization	Title	Leader	Country	In office	Ref
Food and Agriculture Organization	Director-general	Jacques Diouf	Senegal	1994–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Atomic Energy Agency	Director-general	Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt	1997–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Civil Aviation Organization	President of the Council	Assad Kotaite	Lebanon	1976–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Secretary-general	Renato Claudio Costa Pereira	Brazil	1997–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Taïeb Chérif	Algeria	2003–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Labour Organization	Director-general	Juan Somavía	Chile	1999–2012	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
United Nations	Secretary-general	Kofi Annan	Ghana	1997–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the General Assembly	Jan Kavan	Czech Republic	2002–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Julian Hunte	Saint Lucia	2003–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	United Nations Security Council members		China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Bulgaria, Cameroon, Guinea, Mexico, Syria (elected for 2002–2003); Angola, Chile, Germany, Pakistan, Spain (elected for 2003–2004)		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director	Carol Bellamy	United States	1995–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) director-general	Kōichirō Matsuura	Japan	1999–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights	Sérgio Vieira de Mello	Brazil	2002–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Bertrand Ramcharan	Guyana	2003–2004 (acting)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)	Ruud Lubbers	Netherlands	2001–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) director-general	Carlos Alfredo Magariños	Argentina	1997–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director	James T. Morris	United States	2002–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	World Health Organization (WHO) director-general	Gro Harlem Brundtland	Norway	1998–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)	President	John Zillman	Australia	1995–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Alexander Bedritsky	Russia	2003–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)	Secretary-general	Francesco Frangialli	Jordan	1997–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Political and economic organizations

Organization	Title	Leader	Country	In office	Ref
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)	Secretary-general	Jean-Robert Goulongana	Gabon	2000–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
African Union	Chairperson	Thabo Mbeki	South Africa	2002–2003 (first Chairperson)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Joaquim Chissano	Mozambique	2003–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Chairperson of the Commission	Alpha Oumar Konaré	Mali	2003–2008 (first Chairperson)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Andean Community	Secretary-general	Guillermo Fernández de Soto	Colombia	2002–2004	<ref name=torresjarrin>Template:Cite book</ref>
Arab League	Secretary-general	Amr Moussa	Egypt	2001–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Arab Maghreb Union	Secretary-general	Habib Boularès	Tunisia	2002–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	Executive director	Piamsak Milintachinda	Thailand	2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)	Secretary-general	Ong Keng Yong	Singapore	2003–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Caribbean Community	Secretary-general	Edwin Carrington	Trinidad and Tobago	1992–2010	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Central American Parliament (PARLACEN)	President	Augusto Vela Mena	Guatemala	2002–2003	<ref name=parlacen/>
		Mario Facussé Handal	Honduras	2003–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA)	Secretary-general	Erastus J. O. Mwencha	Kenya	1998–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Commonwealth of Nations	Head	Queen Elizabeth II	United Kingdom	1952–presentTemplate:Update after	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Secretary-general	Don McKinnon	New Zealand	2000–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Commonwealth of Independent States	Executive Secretary	Yury Yarov	Russia	1999–2004	Template:Citation needed
Council of Europe	Secretary General	Walter Schwimmer	Austria	1999–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)	Peter Schieder		2002–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Court of Human Rights (first President)	Luzius Wildhaber	Switzerland	1998–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
East African Community	Secretary-general	Amanya Mushega	Uganda	2001–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)	Executive Secretary	Mohamed Ibn Chambas	Ghana	2002–2007 (last Executive Secretary)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Chairman	John Kufuor		2002–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Eurasian Economic Community	Secretary-general	Grigory Rapota	Russia	2001–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Chairman of the Interstate Council	Nursultan Nazarbayev	Kazakhstan	2001–2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite report</ref>
European Free Trade Association	Secretary-general	William Rossier	Switzerland	2000–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
European Union (EU)	Presidency of the European Council	Costas Simitis	Greece	2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Silvio Berlusconi	Italy		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Commission	Romano Prodi	Italy	1999–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Parliament	Pat Cox	Ireland	2002–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Secretary-General of the Council	Javier Solana	Spain	1999–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy				citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Central Bank	Wim Duisenberg	Netherlands	1998–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Jean-Claude Trichet	France	2003–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	European Ombudsman	Jacob Söderman	Finland	1995–2003 (first Ombudsman)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Nikiforos Diamandouros	Greece	2003–2013	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR)	Albert Bore	Scotland	2002–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Investment Bank (EIB)	Philippe Maystadt	Belgium	2000–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ)	Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias	Spain	1994–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Vassilios Skouris	Greece	2003–2015	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Court of Auditors (ECA)	Juan Manuel Fabra Vallés	Spain	2002–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)	Roger Briesch	France	2002–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gulf Cooperation Council	Secretary-general	Abdul Rahman bin Hamad Al Attiyah	Qatar	2002–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Indian Ocean Commission	Secretary-general	Wilfrid Bertile	Réunion	2001–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)	Chairman	Thabo Mbeki	South Africa	1999–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Mahathir Mohamad	Malaysia	2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Abdullah Ahmad Badawi		2003–2006	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Nordic Council	President	Inge Lønning	Norway	2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Secretary-general	Frida Nokken		1999–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)	Secretary-general	George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen	United Kingdom	1999–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo	Italy	2003–2004 (acting)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)	Secretary-general	Don Johnston	Canada	1996–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)	Secretary-general	Ján Kubiš	Slovakia	1999–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Chairman-in-Office	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	Netherlands	2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Bernard Bot			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	High Commissioner on National Minorities	Rolf Ekéus	Sweden	2001–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organization of American States	Secretary-general	César Gaviria	Colombia	1994–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States	Director-general	Len Ishmael	Saint Lucia	2003–2013 (first director-general)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC)	Secretary-general	Abdelouahed Belkeziz	Morocco	2001–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Pacific Community (SPC)	Director-general	Lourdes Pangelinan	Guam	2000–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Pacific Islands Forum	Secretary-general	Noel Levi	Papua New Guinea	1998–2004	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
		Greg Urwin	Australia	2004–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)	Secretary-general	Q. A. M. A. Rahim	Bangladesh	2002–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Southern African Development Community	Executive Secretary	Prega Ramsamy	Mauritius	2001–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)	Secretary-general	Erkin Alptekin	Uyghurs	2000–2003	Template:Citation needed
		Marino Busdachin	Italy	2003–2018	Template:Citation needed
Western European Union	Secretary-general	Javier Solana	Spain	1999–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
World Trade Organization (WTO)	Director-general	Supachai Panitchpakdi	Thailand	2002–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Financial organizations

Organization	Title	Leader	Country	In office	Ref
African Development Bank	President	Omar Kabbaj	Morocco	1995–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Asian Development Bank	President	Tadao Chino	Japan	1999–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	President	Jean Lemierre	France	2000–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)	President	Enrique V. Iglesias	Uruguay/Spain	1988–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Monetary Fund	Managing director	Horst Köhler	Germany	2000–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)	President	Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Madani	Saudi Arabia	1975–present Template:Update after	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
World Bank	President	James Wolfensohn	Australia/United States	1995–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Sports organizations

Organization	President	Country	In office	Ref
Asian Football Confederation (AFC)	Mohamed bin Hammam	Qatar	2002–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Badminton World Federation (BWF)	Korn Dabbaransi	Thailand	2001–2005	Template:Citation needed
Confédération africaine de football (CAF)	Issa Hayatou	Cameroon	1988–2017	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)	Jack A. Warner	Trinidad and Tobago	1990–2011	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)	Nicolás Leoz	Paraguay	1986–2013	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fédération internationale de basket-ball	Carl Men Ky Ching	China	2002–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)	Sepp Blatter	Switzerland	1998–2015	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG)	Bruno Grandi	Italy	1996–2016	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Fédération internationale de natation (FINA)	Mustapha Larfaoui	Algeria	1988–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB)	Rubén Acosta	Mexico	1984–2008	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA)	Denis Oswald	Switzerland	1989-2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI)	Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz	Spain	1994–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE)	René Roch	France	1993–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA)	Enrique Perrez	Spain	2001–2005	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Association of Athletics Federations	Lamine Diack	Senegal	1999–2015	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Boxing Association (IBA)	Anwar Chowdhry	Pakistan	1986–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Cricket Council (ICC)	Malcolm Gray	Australia	2000–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Ehsan Mani	Pakistan	2003–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=icc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Handball Federation (IHF)	Hassan Moustafa	Egypt	2000–presentTemplate:Update after	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Hockey Federation (FIIH)	René Fasel	Switzerland	1994–2021	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Judo Federation (IJF)	Park Yong-sung	South Korea	1995–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Olympic Committee (IOC)	Jacques Rogge	Belgium	2001–2013	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)	Philip Craven	United Kingdom	2001–2017	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Rugby Board (IRB)	Vernon Pugh	Australia	1994–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Syd Millar	Northern Ireland	2003–2007	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Sailing Federation (ISAF)	Paul Henderson	Canada	1994–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Göran Petersson	Sweden	2004–2012	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)	Olegario Vázquez Raña	Mexico	1980–2018	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)	Adham Sharara	Canada	1999–2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Tennis Federation (ITF)	Francesco Ricci Bitti	Italy	1999–2015	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
World Taekwondo Federation (WTF)	Un Yong Kim	South Korea	1973–2004 (first President)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Triathlon Union (ITU)	Les McDonald	United Kingdom/Canada	1989–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other organizations

Organization	Title	Leader	Country	In office	Ref
Colombo Plan	Secretary-general	Sarat Chandran	India	1999–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Kittipan Kanjanapipatkul	Thailand	2003–2007	<ref name=colombo/>
Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)	Executive Secretary	João Augusto de Médicis	Brazil	2002–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
La Francophonie	Secretary-general	Abdou Diouf	Senegal	2003–2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)	Executive Secretary	Attalla Bashir	Sudan	2000–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Committee of the Red Cross	President	Jakob Kellenberger	Switzerland	2000–2012	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Court of Justice	Presidents	Gilbert Guillaume	France	2000–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		Shi Jiuyong	China	2003–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Criminal Court	President	Philippe Kirsch	Canada	2003–2009 (first President)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)	Secretary-general	Ronald Noble	United States	2000–2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	President	Jesús Espigares-Mira	Spain	2000–2004	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)	President	Juan Manuel Suárez Del Toro Rivero	Spain	2001–2009	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Maritime Organization	Secretary-general	William A. O'Neil	Canada	1990–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
International Organization for Migration (IOM)	Director-general	Brunson McKinley	United States	1998–2008	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
International Telecommunication Union	Secretary-general	Yoshio Utsumi	Japan	1998–2006	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)	Director-general	Rogelio Pfirter	Argentina	2002–2010	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	Secretary-general	Alvaro Silva Calderon	Venezuela	2002–2003	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Universal Postal Union	Director-general	Thomas E. Leavey	United States	1994–2005	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	Director-general	Kamil Idris	Sudan	1997–2008	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• List of state leaders in 2003
• List of religious leaders in 2003
• List of colonial governors in 2003
• List of international organization leaders in 2002
• List of international organization leaders in 2004