International Maritime Organization - Secretary-General

Secretary-General

The current Secretary-General is Koji Sekimizu (Japan), elected for a four-year term at the 106th session of the IMO Council in June 2011 and at the 27th session of the IMO's Assembly in November 2011. His mandate started on 1 January 2012.

Previous Secretaries-General were:

  • 1959 Ove Nielsen (Denmark)
  • 1961 William Graham (United Kingdom; acting, following death of Mr Nielsen)
  • 1963 Jean Roulier (France)
  • 1968 Colin Goad (United Kingdom)
  • 1974 C P Srivastava (India)
  • 1990 William O'Neil (Canada)
  • 2003 Efthimios E. Mitropoulos (Greece)

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