(in inverse chronological order)

• 2006 - 2007 Bärbel Kirchner (Dubai)
• 2004 - 2006 Serge Moes (Luxembourg)
• 2002 - 2004 John Montague (Malta)
• 2001 - 2002 Samia Khafaga (Egypt)
• 1999 - 2001 Panos Argyros (Greece)
• December 1998 - August 1999 Antonio de la Morena (Spain)
• 1997 - December 1998 Theo Lingmont (Netherlands)
• 1995 - 1997 António Serras Pereira (Portugal)
• 1994 - 1995 Russel Barlow-Jones (South Africa)
• 1992 - 1994 Orestis Rossides (Cyprus)
• June 1991 - August 1992 Gabor Tarr (Hungary)
• December 1989 - June 1991 Leslie Agius (Malta)
• March to December 1989 Graeme Haycraft (Australia)
• 1987 - 1989 Barbro Hunter (Sweden)
• 1985 - 1987 Günther Nischwitz (Federal Republic of Germany)
• 1983 - 1985 Jorge Felner da Costa (Portugal)
• 1981 - 1983 Eddo Marx (Netherlands)
• 1979 - 1981 Tom Hill (Canada)
• 1976 - 1979 Phyllis Chapman (Finland)
• March to July 1976 Len Hunt (New Zealand)
• 1974 - 1976 Norbert Burda (Austria)
• January to March 1974 Vibha Pandhi (India)
• March to December 1973 Bob Duffet (Bahamas)
• 1971 - 1973 Pierre Claus (Belgium)
• 1967 - 1971 Eiler Hansen (Denmark)
• Until December 1966 Count Ladislau de Hoyos (Austria)
• 1964 - 1965 Birger Ek (Finland)
• 1963 Georges Anderla (France)
• 1959 - 1963 Count Ladislau de Hoyos (Austria)
• 1959 Per Prag (Norway)
• 1956 - 1959 Henri Ernst (Switzerland)
• 1951 - 1956 Maurice Vignon (France)

Unless otherwise stated, terms of office began and ended at the Annual General Meeting in March.