WPA Special Member
WPA special members are those members who cannot be categorised within the WPA member society and affiliate association groups. Whilst the WPA does not accept applications for individual memberships, the "special" category includes those individuals who have been awarded an honorary membership, fellowship or presidential commendation following an exceptional contribution to the practice of psychiatry. Special memberships are nominated, agreed and conferred at triennial General Assembly meetings.
Honorary Membership - Virtual 2020
Name
Country
Dr Stojan Bajraktarov
North Macedonia Ms Claudia Buchweitz
Brazil Professor Wendy Burn
UK Dr Alfredo Cia
Argentina Professor Prabha Chandra
India Dr Chawanun Charnsil
Thailand Professor Doina Cozman
Romania Professor Christopher Dowrick
UK Professor Maria Luísa Figueira
Portugal Mr Steve Fisher
Australia Dr Karandeep Sonu Gaind
Canada Professor Silvia Gaviria
Colombia Associate Professor Neeraj Gill
Australia Dr Suhaila Ghuloum
Qatar Dr Maria João Heitor
Portugal Dr Nawaporn Hirunviwatgul
Thailand Professor Amanda Howe
UK Professor Christina Hoven
USA Dr Toshiko Kamo
Japan Ms Alice Kan
Hong Kong Professor Shigenobu Kanba
Japan Dr Christian Kieling
Brazil Dr Fred Kigozi
Uganda Professor Jyrki Korkeila
Finland Dr Nino Makhashvili
Georgia Ms Miia Manniko
Finland Professor Jair Mari
Brazil Professor Bernadette McSherry
Australia Professor Maria Elena Medina-Mora Icaza
Mexico Dr Francisco Javier Mesa Ríos
Mexico Ms Guadalupe Morales
Spain Dr Davor Mucic
Denmark Dr Khalid Attaullah Mufti
Pakistan Professor Pratima Murthy
India Professor Nahla Nagy
Egypt Professor David M. Ndetei
Kenya Dr Bernardo Ng
USA Professor Antoni Novotni
North Macedonia Dr John Oldham
USA Professor Olayinka Omigbodum
Nigeria Professor Martha Ontiveros
USA Dra Miriam de la Osa O'Reilly
Cuba Professor Vikram Patel
India & USA Dr Prasad Rao
India Professor Gail Robinson
Canada Dr Maria Rodrigues
Australia Dra Virginia Rosabal
Costa Rica Professor John Saunders
Australia Professor Martha Savage
New Zealand Dr Annabel Seebohm
Belgium Dr Winston Shen
Taiwan Professor Geoffrey Smith
UK Dr Aldo A. Suárez Mendoza
Mexico Ms Charlene Sunkel
South Africa Professor Christopher Szabo
South Africa Professor George Szmukler
UK Professor Solomon Teferra
Ethiopia Professor Markos Tesfaye
Ethiopia Professor João Marques-Teixeira
Portugal Professor Catalina Tudose
Romania Professor Owoidoho Udofia
Nigeria Dr Pedro Varandas
Portugal Dr Kiattibhoom Vongrachit
Thailand Dr Dawit Wondimagegn
Ethiopia Professor Wang Xiaoping
China Mr Lian Zeitz
USA Professor Zvi Zemishlany
Israel Mr Spyros Zorbas
Greece
Honorary Fellowship - Virtual 2020
Name
Country
Professor John Allan
Australia Professor Michaela Amering
Austria Professor Silvana Galderisi
Italy Professor Roy Abraham Kallivayalil
India Professor María Inés López-Ibor de Alcocer
Spain Professor Armen Soghoyan
Armenia
Presidential Commendations - Virtual 2020
Name
Country
Professor Afzal Javed
UK and Pakistan Dr Carol Nadelson
USA Professor Norman Sartorius
Switzerland Professor Sam Tyano
Israel
Honorary Membership - Berlin 2017
Name
Country
Dr Leopoldo Abda
Ecuador Prof Mohan Agashe
India Dr Francis Agnew
New Zealand Prof Paul Appelbaum
USA Dr Gisele Apter
France Dr T.V. Asokan
India Dr Stojan Bajraktarov
Republic of Macedonia, FYROM Prof Sabyasachi Bhaumik
UK Prof K S Bhui
UK Dr Michel Botbol
France Dr Niall Boyce
UK Rt Hon Paul Burstow
UK Mrs Vanessa Cameron
UK Dr Eka Chkonia
Georgia Dr Wai-chi Chan
Hong Kong Dr Prabha Chandra
India Dr Santosh K Chaturvedi
India Dr Massimo Clerici
Italy Dr Mary Cohen
USA Prof Eric Chen
Hong Kong Prof Enrique Chávez León
Mexico Dr Frank Huang-Chih Chou
Taiwan Dr Rodrigo Cordoba
Colombia Prof Tom Craig
UK Dr Kirsten Eckstrand
USA Prof Ian Everall
Australia/UK Dr Ann Faerden
Norway Prof Peter Falkai
Germany Mr Jon Fanning
USA Dr Andrea Fiorillo
Italy Dr Andrew Forrester
UK Dr Silvana Galderisi
Italy Dr Silvia Gaviria
Colombia Sir David Goldberg
UK Dr Mukesh Haikerwal
Australia Dr Julie Holzhausen
Germany Dr Malcolm Hopwood
Australia Prof Gabriel Ivbijaro
UK Dr Paramjit Joshi
USA Prof Michael Kidd
Australia Dr Jyrki Korkeila
Finland Prof Linda Lam
Hong Kong Rt Hon Norman Lamb
UK Dr Alex Langford
UK Dr Min-Soo Lee
South Korea Dr Bennett Leventhal
USA Dr Saul Levin
USA Dr Petros Levounis
USA Dr Maria-Ines Lopez-Ibor
Spain Dr S. C. Malik
India Dr Joan Marsh
UK Dr Ola Marstein
Norway Dr Daniel Maughan
UK Dr Gordana Milovic
UK Dr Petr V. Morozov
Russia Dr Khalid Attaullah Mufti
Pakistan Dr Nahla Nagy
Egypt Dr Alvydas Navickas
Lithuania Dr David M. Ndetei
Kenya Dr Roger Ng
Hong Kong Prof. Aurel Nireștean
Romania Dr Soumitra Pathare
India Dr Max Pemberton
UK Dr Nerys Perez
Dominican Republic Mr Albert Persaud
UK/Spain Mr Andrew Peters
Australia Dr Mary Piper
UK Dr Luz Ma Querubin
Philippines Brig MSVK Raju
India Dr Virginia Rosabal
Costa Rica Prof Roxanna Ruiz
Guatemala Dr Walid Sarhan
Jordan Sir Anand Satyanand
New Zealand Dr Meryam Schouler-Ocak
Germany Dr Raad Shakir
UK Dr Avdesh Sharma
India Dr Sujatha Sharma
India Dr Greg Shields
UK Dr Norbert Skokauskas
Norway Prof Paul Summergrad
USA Dr R Thara
India Dr Mvuyiso Talatala
South Africa Dr Kuruvilla Thomas
India Prof Edgardo Tolentino
Philippines Dr Julio Torales
Paraguay Dr Pichet Udomratn
Thailand Dr Uwoidoho Udofia
Nigeria Dr Rutger Jan van der Gaag
Netherlands Prof Bernard van Rensburg
South Africa Dr Antonio Ventriglio
Italy Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar
India Ms Marjorie Wallace
UK Dr Ian Westmore
South Africa Sir Simon Wessely
UK Dr Michael Jan Wise
UK
Honorary Fellowship - Berlin 2017
Name
Country
Prof Paul Appelbaum
USA Dr Edgard Belfort
Venezuela Prof Dinesh Bhugra
UK Dr Alfredo Cía
Argentina Dr Afzal Javed
Pakistan Prof Edmond Pi
USA Dr Michelle Riba
USA Dr Constantin Soldatos
Greece Prof Donna Stewart
Canada Dr Zvi Zemishlany
Israel
Presidential Commendations - Berlin 2017
Name
Country
Mrs Vanessa Cameron
UK Dr Antonio Geraldo de Silva
Brazil Prof Helen Herrman
Australia Dr Dilip Jeste
USA Dr Marianne Kastrup
Denmark Dr Saul Levin
USA Prof Mario Maj
Italy Mr Kunal Nayyar
USA/India Mr Suresh Oberoi
India Ms Shivani
India Prof Robert van Voren
Unknown Sir Simon Wessely
UK
Honorary Membership - Madrid 2014
Name
Country
ndArés Arce
Paraguay Tun Bastaman
Indonesia Miguel Roca Bennasar
Spain Julio Bobes Garcia
Spain Mari Fe Bravo
Spain Cheng Chung Chen
Taiwan Alfredo Cia
Argentina Fabrizio Delgado Campodonico
Ecuador Rodolfo Fahrer
Argentina Kostas N. Fountoulakis
Greece Linda Gask
UK Miguel Gutiérrez
Spain Linda Lam
Hong Kong Carmen Leal
Spain Bennett L. Leventhal
USA Eduardo Madrigal de León
Mexico John S. McIntyre
USA Driss Moussaoui
Morocco Michael Musalek
Austria Antonio Pacheco Palha
Portugal Eudoxia Gay Pamos
Spain Peter Pregelj
Slovenia Dan Prelipceanu
Romania Solomon Rataemane
South Africa Hans Rohlof
France Jeronimo Saiz
Spain Mauricio A. Sanchez
Nicaragua Thomas G. Schulze
Germany Eliot Sorel
Romania José Geraldo Vernet Taborda
Brazil Manickam Thirunavukarasu
India Henrik Wahlberg
Sweden Danuta Wasserman
Sweden Zvi Zemishlany
Israel
Honorary Fellowship - Madrid 2014
Name
Country
Tsuyoshi Akiyama
Japan Levent Küey
Turkey Tarek A. Okasha
Egypt
Presidential Commendations - Madrid 2014
Name
Country
Tsuyoshi Akiyama
Japan Edgard Belfort
Venezuela Dinesh Bhugra
U.K. Maria Fe Bravo
Spain Eudoxia Gay
Spain Miguel Gutierrez
Spain Afzal Javed
Pakistan Levent Küey
Turkey Mario Maj
Italy Charles B. Nemeroff
USA Ahmed Okasha
Egypt Tarek A. Okasha
Egypt Jeronimo Saiz
Spain Michelle Riba
USA Miguel Roca
Spain Antonio Pacheco Palha
Portugal
Honorary Membership - Buenos Aires 2011
Name
Country
Joseph Adeyemi
Nigeria Dimitris Anagnostopoulos
Greece Charles Baddoura
Lebanon Rachid Bennegadi
France Marco Bertelli
Italy Alfredo Calcedo Barba
Spain Alfredo Cia
Argentina Julian Freidin
Australia Ahmad Jalili
Iran Valery Krasnov
Russia Maya Kulygina
Russia Tamas Kurimay
Hungary Dusica Lecic-Tosevski
Serbia Xin Ma
China Nestor Marchant
Argentina Miguel Angel Materazzi
Argentina Hans-Jürgen Möller
Germany Unaiza Niaz
Pakistan Stein Opjordsmoen
Norway Edmond Pi
USA Mohamed G. Rabbani
Bangladesh Michelle B. Riba
USA Luis Risco
Chile Naotaka Shinfuku
Japan Mohamed A. Sobhan
Bangladesh Armen Soghoyan
Armenia Juan Carlo Stagnaro
Argentina Heather Stuart
Canada José Geraldo Vernet Taborda
Brazil Raymond Tempier
Canada Yves Thoret
France Peter Tyrer
UK Gang Wang
China Xiaomin Wang
China Richard Warner
USA Jingping Zhao
China
Honorary Fellowship - Buenos Aires 2011
Name
Country
Allan Tasman
USA Miguel Jorge
Brazil Helen Herrman
Australia
Honorary Membership - Prague 2008
Name
Country
Michaela Amering
Florence Baingana
Cho Chung
Luis Enrique Rivero
Julian Freidin
Bill Fulford
Oye Gureje
Sheila Hollins
Ma Hong
Thomas Kallert
Fred Kigozi
Levent Kuey
Cristobal Martinez
Alberto Monchablon
Frank Njenga
Ihsan Salloum
Luis Salvador-Carulla
Hans-Otto Thomashoff
Jitendra Trivedi
Ferenc Tury
Ron Wintrob
Zeping Xiao
Honorary Fellowship - Prague 2008
Name
Country
John Cox
Hamid Ghodse
Francois Ferrero
Sam Tyano
Presidential Commendations - Prague 2008
Name
Country
Prof. Roger Montenegro.
Honorary Membership - Cairo 2005
Name
Country
Prof. Mohammed Abou-Saleh
Prof. Edgard Belfort
Prof. Haroon R. Chaudhry
Prof. François Ferrero
Prof. Wolfgang Fleischhacker
Prof. Afaf Hamed Khalid
Prof. Graciela Lucatelli
Prof. Brian Martindale
Prof. Miguel Angel Materazzi
Prof. Tarek Okasha
Prof. Jiri Raboch
Prof. Marta Rondon
Prof. Shridhar Sharma
Prof. Donna Stewart
Dr. Ronnie Swift
Prof. Tudor Udristoiu
Prof. Dante Warthon
Honorary Fellowship - Cairo 2005
Name
Country
Prof. George Christodoulou
Prof. Joseph English
Prof. Marianne Kastrup
Prof. Mario Maj
Prof. Juan Mezzich
Prof. Roger Montenegro
Prof. Driss Moussaoui
Prof. Ahmed Okasha
Prof. Pedro Ruiz
Presidential Commendations - Cairo 2005
Name
Country
Prof. Pedro Ruiz.
Honorary Membership - Yokohama 2002
Name
Country
Said Abdel Azim
Egypt Mordechai Benyakar
Argentina Carlos Berganza
Guatemala Nick Bouras
United Kingdom Enrique Camarena
Mexico Edmond Chiu
Australia John Cox
United Kingdom Parameshvara Deva
Malaysia Harold Eist
USA Jean Garrabé
France Christian Haasen
Germany Mariano Hernández
Spain Tetsuo Hirose
Japan Assen Jablensky
Australia Miguel Jorge
Brazil Levent Küey
Turkey Carmen Leal
Spain Nestor Marchant
Argentina Massimo Moscarelli
Italy Kari Pylkkänen
Finland Agnes Rupp
USA Mitsumoto Sato
Japan Jiro Suzuki
Japan Dusiça Lecić-Tosevsky
Yugoslavia Rasit Tükel
Turkey
Honorary Fellowship - Yokohama 2002
Name
Country
Peter Berner
France Robert Cancro
USA Carlos León
Colombia Teruo Okuma
Japan Benedetto Saraceno
Switzerland 
