The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund was established in 1948, by a resolution of the General Assembly, to provide retirement, death, disability and related benefits for staff upon cessation of their services with the United Nations, under Regulations that, since then, have been amended at various times.

As an independent inter-agency entity, the Fund operates under its own Regulations as approved by the General Assembly and, in accordance with its governance structure, is administered by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, which currently consists of 33 members, representing the 24 member organizations that are listed below:

1. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
2. European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
4. International Atomic Energy Agency
5. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
6. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property
7. International Civil Aviation Organization
8. International Criminal Court
9. International Fund for Agricultural Development
10. International Labour Organization
11. International Maritime Organization
12. International Organization for Migration
13. Inter-Parliamentary Union
14. International Seabed Authority
15. International Telecommunication Union
16. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
17. Special Tribunal for Lebanon
18. United Nations
19. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
20. United Nations Industrial Development Organization
21. World Health Organization
22. World Intellectual Property Organization
23. World Meteorological Organization
24. World Tourism Organization