Presidents of Previous Congress
| I | 1970 | Fritz Koller | Montreux, Switzerland |
| II | 1971 | Paul A. Owren | Oslo, Norway |
| III | 1972 | Kenneth M. Brinkhous | Washington, DC, USA |
| IV | 1973 | Erwin Deutsch | Vienna, Austria |
| V | 1975 | Jean-Pierre Soulier | Paris, France |
| VI | 1977 | Sol Sherry | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| VII | 1979 | Gustav V. R. Born | London, UK |
| VIII | 1981 | J. Fraser Mustard | Toronto, Canada |
| IX | 1983 | Birger Blomback | Stockholm, Sweden |
| X | 1985 | Russell F. Doolittle | San Diego, CA, USA |
| XI | 1987 | Marc Verstraete | Brussels, Belgium |
| XII | 1989 | Takeshi Abe | Tokyo, Japan |
| XIII | 1991 | Jan Sixma | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| XIV | 1993 | Yale Nemerson | New York, NY, USA |
| XV | 1995 | Uri Seligsohn | Jerusalem, Israel |
| XVI | 1997 | Pier M. Mannucci | Florence, Italy |
| XVII | 1999 | Victor J. Marder | Washington, DC, USA |
| XVIII | 2001 | Dominique Meyer | Paris, France |
| XIX | 2003 | Ian R. Peake | Birmingham, England |
| XX | 2005 | Colin N. Chesterman | Sydney, Australia |
| XXI | 2007 | Henri M. Bounameaux | Geneva, Switzerland |
Presidents of Future Congresses
| XXII | 2009 | Bruce and Barbara Furie | Boston, MA, USA |
| XXIII | 2011 | Yasuo Ikeda | Kyoto, Japan |
| XXIV | 2013 | Frits R. Rosendaal | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| XXV | 2015 | Sam Schulman | Toronto, Canada |