Council / Former Presidents
The following is a list of all Former Presidents elected during the WPA General Assemblies (in the cities indicated below their names) since its inception in 1950.  Inclusion in this list is acknowledgment of the organisation's leadership and not an endorsement of the actions of any person herein.
2020
council
Afzal Javed
(UK)
Elected Virtually
2014
council
Dinesh Bhugra 
(UK)
Elected in Madrid
2008
council
Mario Maj
(Italy)
Elected in Prague
2002
council
Tarek A. Okasha
(Egypt)
Elected in Yokohama
1996
council
Norman Sartorius
(Switzerland)
Elected in Madrid
1989
council
Jorge A. Costa e Silva
(Brazil)
Elected in Athens
2017
council
Helen Herrman
(Australia)
Elected in Berlin
2011
council
Pedro Ruiz
(USA)
Elected in Buenos Aires
2005
council
​Juan E. Mezzich
(USA)
Elected in Cairo
1999
council
Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr.
(Spain)
Elected in Hamburg
1993
council
Felice Lieh-Mak
(Hong Kong)
Elected in Rio de Janeiro
1983
council
Costas Stefanis
(Greece)
Elected in Vienna