Editing ECOWAS (section)

=== Executive secretaries and presidents of the commission ===
{| class=" wikitable sortable"
|-
!Executive Secretary
! Country
! In office
|-
| Inaugural holder [[Aboubakar Diaby Ouattara]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ajulo |first=Sunday Babalola |date=1989 |title=The Economic Community of West African States and International Law |journal=The Journal of Modern African Studies |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=233–250 |doi=10.1017/S0022278X0000046X |jstor=160849 |s2cid=154306079 |issn=0022-278X}}</ref>
|{{CIV}}
| January 1977 – 1985
|-
|[[Momodu Munu]]
| rowspan="2" |{{SLE}}
| 1985–1989
|-
|[[Abass Bundu]]
| 1989–1993
|-
|[[Édouard Benjamin]]
| rowspan="2" |{{GIN}}
| 1993–1997
|-
|[[Lansana Kouyaté]]
| September 1997 – 31 January 2002
|-
|[[Mohamed Ibn Chambas]]
| rowspan="3" |{{GHA}}
| 1 February 2002 – 31 December 2006
|-
|[[Mohamed Ibn Chambas]]
| 1 January 2007 – 18 February 2010
|-
|[[James Victor Gbeho]]
| 18 February 2010 – 1 March 2012
|-
|[[Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo]]
|{{BFA}}
| 1 March 2012 – 4 June 2016
|-
|[[Marcel Alain de Souza]]
|{{BEN}}
| 4 June 2016 – 1 March 2018
|-
|[[Jean-Claude Brou]]
|{{CIV}}
| 1 March 2018 – 3 July 2022
|-
|[[Omar Touray]]
|{{GAM}}
| 3 July 2022 – present
|}