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The following is a list of all those who have been elected President of the WPA 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.
Jean Delay (France)
1950
Paris
Jean Delay (France)
1957
Zurich
D. Ewen Cameron (Canada)
1961
Montreal
Juan J. López-Ibor (Spain)
1966
Madrid
Howard Rome (USA)
1972
Mexico City
Pierre Pichot (France)
1977
Hawaii
Costas Stefanis (Greece)
1983
Vienna
Jorge A. Costa e Silva (Brazil)
1989
Athens
Felice Lieh-Mak (Hong Kong)
1993
Rio de Janeiro
Norman Sartorius (Switzerland)
1996
Madrid
Juan J. López-Ibor, Jr. (Spain)
1999
Hamburg
Ahmed Okasha (Egypt)
2002
Yokohama
​Juan E. Mezzich (USA)
2005
Cairo
Mario Maj (Italy)
2008
Prague
​Pedro Ruiz (USA)
2011
Buenos Aires
Dinesh Bhugra (UK)
2014
Madrid
Helen Herrman (Australia)
2017
Berlin
Afzal Javed (UK)
2020
Virtual
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