Past Presidents
When ISPhS was founded on January 6th, 1938, Daniel Jones became it’s first President. Bertil Malmberg who was elected President in 1961 states in an early report that ISPhS’s General Meeting in 1961 was opened "under the presidency of Professor Eberhard Zwirner".
| ICPhS | IPS | Site | President | |
| 1932 | 1 | Amsterdam | ||
| 1935 | 2 | London | ||
| 1938 | 3 | Gent | Daniel Jones | |
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| Eberhard Zwirner | ||
| 1961 | 4 | Helsinki | Bertil Malmberg | |
| 1964 | 5 | Münster | " | |
| 1967 | 6 | Prague | " | |
| 1971 | 7 | Montréal | " | |
| 1975 | 8 | Leeds | Milan Romportl | |
| 1979 | 9 | Kopenhagen | " | |
| 1982 | Martin Kloster-Jensen | |||
| 1983 | 10 | Utrecht | William A. Sakow | |
| 1987 | 11 | Tallinn | " | |
| 1989 | Harry Hollien | |||
| 1991 | 12 | Aix | " | |
| 1995 | 13 | Stockholm | " | |
| 1998 | IPS-98 | Bellingham | J.-P. Köster | |
| 1999 | 14 | San Francisco | " | |