The IO BIO Project provides an open access online biographical dictionary with short biographies of Secretaries-General (SGs), or other executive heads with different titles, of International Organizations (IOs).
Available Entries of Secretaries-General A-Z
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Mineitciro Adatci [PCIJ 1931-33], Yukiya Amano [IAEA 2009-19], Kofi Atta Annan [UN 1997-2006], Joseph Avenol [LoN 1933-40], João Clemente Baena Soares [OAS 1984-94], Catherine Ann Bertini [WFP 1992-2002], Johan Willem Beyen [BIS 1937-39], Eugene Black [IBRD 1949-62], George Hendrik Christiaan Bodenhausen [BIRPI 1963-70, WIPO 1970-73, UPOV 1969-73], Addeke Hendrik Boerma [WFP 1962-67, FAO 1968-75], Boutros Boutros-Ghali [UN 1992-96, la Francophonie 1997-2002], Gro Harlem Brundtland [WHO 1998-2003], José Mauricio de Figuiredo Bustani [OPCW 1997-2002], Harold Beresford Butler [ILO 1932-38], Marcolino Gomes Candau [WHO 1953-73], Peter Alexander Carrington [NATO 1984-88], Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti [LU 1997-2000], Margaret Chan [WHO 2007-17], George Brock Chisholm [WHO 1948-53], Alden Winship Clausen [IBRD 1981-86], William Sterling Cole [IAEA 1957-61], Rachel Eleanor Crowdy [LoN Social Affairs 1919-31], Charles Louis Curchod [ITU 1869, 1873-89], David Arthur Davies [WMO 1956-79], Yvo de Boer [UNFCCC 2006-10]; Jacques de Larosière [IMF 1978-87, EBRD 1993-98], Boubacar Telli Diallo [OAU 1964-72], James Eric Drummond [LoN 1919-33], Luther Harris Evans [UNESCO 1953-58], Robert Kweku Atta Gardiner [UNECA 1962-75], César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo [OAS 1994-2004], Edward Colin Viner Goad [IMCO 1968-73], James Pineo Grant [UNICEF 1980-95], Michel Hansenne [ILO 1989-99], Bastiaan Wouter Haveman [ICEM 1962-69], Paul Gray Hoffman [UNSF 1959-65, UNDP 1966-72], Marius Willen Holtrop [BIS 1958-67], Julian Sorell Huxley [UNESCO 1946-48], Kamil Eltayeb Idris [WIPO, UPOV 1997-2008], James Charles Ingram [WFP 1982-92], Hastings Lionel Ismay [NATO 1952-57], Clarence Wilfred Jenks [ILO 1970-73], Donald James Johnston [OECD 1996-2006], Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside [UNTAA 1950-58], Néstor Kirchner [UNASUR 2010], Thorkil Kristensen [OEEC 1960-61, OECD 1961-69], John (Séan) Ernest Lester [LoN 1940-46], Trygve Halvdan Lie [UN 1946-53], Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns [NATO 1971-84]
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Amadou Mahtar M’Bow [UNESCO 1974-87], René Maheu [UNESCO 1961-74], Halfdan Theodor Mahler [WHO 1973-88], Sicco Leendert Mansholt [Commission EC 1972-73], Robert Ernest Marjolin [OEEC 1948-55], Federico Mayor Zaragoza [UNESCO 1987-99], James Grover McDonald [LoN HCRG 1933-35], Robert Strange McNamara [IBRD 1968-71], Eugene Isaac Meyer [IBRD 1946], Laurence Victor Michelmore [UNRWA 1964-71], Louis Michiels van Verduynen [PCA 1905-29], David Abner Morse [ILO 1948-70], Gunnar Myrdal [UNECE 1947-57], Hiroshi Nakajima [WHO 1988-98], Fridtjof Nansen [LoN HCR 1921-30], Sadako Ogata [UNHCR 1991-2000], Marcelino Oreja Aguirre [CoE 1984-89], Washington Alejandro Orfila [OAS 1975-84], John Boyd Orr [FAO 1945-48], Maurice Pate [UNICEF 1947-65], Edward Joseph Phelan [ILO 1941-48], Peter Karel Piot [UNAIDS 1994-2008], Raúl Federico Prebisch [UNECLA 1950-63, UNCTAD 1964-69], Ludwik Witold Rajchman [LoN HO 1921-39], Rubens Ricupero [UNCTAD 1995-2004], George Islay McNeill Robertson [NATO 1999-2003], Mary Therese Winifred Robinson [UNHCHR 1997-2002], Salim Ahmed Salim [OAU 1989-2001], James Arthur Salter [LoN EFO 1919-20, 1922-31], Edouard Victor Saouma [FAO 1976-93], Paul-Henri Spaak [NATO 1957-61], Dirk Uipko Stikker [NATO 1961-64], John Stokes [ECD 1856-71], Thorvald Stoltenberg [UNHCR 1990], U Thant [UN 1961-71], Aristide Albert Thomas [ILO 1919-32], Per Unckel [NCM 2003-06], Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart [UNHCR 1951-56], Emile van Lennep [OECD 1969-84], Sérgio Vieira de Mello [UNHCHR 2002-03], John Gilbert Winant [ILO 1939-41], Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen [IMF 1973-78], George David Woods [IBRD 1963-68], Eric Wyndham White [GATT 1948-68]
