Join/Renew
This list accompanies “A Guide to Work Options for Foreign Students.” A list can also be obtained through a university designated school official or through the institution’s international student office.
The following is an alphabetical listing of the international organizations of which the United States is a member and which have been designated by executive order pursuant to various treaties or under the International Organizations Immunities Act of December 29, 1945.
African Development Bank
African Development Fund
Asian Development Bank
Border Environmental Cooperation Commission
Caribbean Organization
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Commission for Labor Cooperation
Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal
Customs Cooperation Council
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Space Agency
Food and Agriculture Organization
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices
Inter-American Defense Board
Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation for Agriculture
Inter-American Investment Corporation
Inter-American Statistical Institute
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development*
International Boundary and Water Commission - the United States and Mexico
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes*
International Civil Aviation Organization
International Coffee Organization
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Cotton Advisory Committee
International Cotton Institute
International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) (Limited Privileges)
International Development Association*
International Development Law Institute
International Fertilizer Development Center
International Finance Corporation*
International Food Policy Research Institute (Limited Privileges)
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Hydrographic Bureau
International Joint Commission - the United States and Canada
International Labor Organization
International Maritime Organization
International Maritime Satellite Organization
International Monetary Fund
International Organization for Migration
International Pacific Halibut Commission
International Secretariat for Volunteer Service
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT)
International Telecommunication Union
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
International Wheat Advisory Committee (International Wheat Council) Interparliamentary Union
Israel-United States Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency*
Multinational Force and Observers
North American Development Bank
North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Organization for African Unity (OAU)
Organization for American States (including Pan American Union)
Organization for Eastern Caribbean States
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Pacific Salmon Commission
Pan American Health Organization (including Pan American Sanitary Bureau)
South Pacific Commission
United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIPRI)
United Nations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Universal Postal Union
World Health Organization
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Meteorological Organization
World Tourism Organization
World Trade Organization
* This is one of the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group. In effect, the World Bank is on this list.
