The organizational structure of IFAD includes: Management Conference; Executive Board; Secretariat (President and his staff).

The secretariat consists of the president and its subordinate resource strategy department, project management department, management and personnel services department, etc.

The president is the legal representative and administrative head of the Agricultural Development Fund. His term is 4 years and can only be re-elected for one term.

The president appoints a vice president and three assistant presidents, leads all staff and presides over daily affairs.

The current president of IFAD is Swedish Lennart Bage.

The first three presidents were Kuwaiti Fawzi Al-Sultan, Saudi Arabian Abdel Muhsin Al-Sudeary and Algerian Idriss Jazairy.

IFAD*** has 265 staff, including 111 professionals, from 49 member countries.

There are two people in China working in the IFAD Secretariat.

In order to avoid a large organization and occupy too much funds, IFAD focuses on using other United Nations agencies (such as the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Office for Project Services, FAO, the United Nations Development Support and Management Services, the World Bank, etc.) to provide resources for its projects

Technical services, project preparation, monitoring and evaluation, loan management and other matters.