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Past Presidents

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

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