List of the IAJ Presidents

(Name, country of origin, time of office)

list of the presidents of the IAJ from the begining in 1953 till now

  1. Ernesto Battaglini (Italy) – Salzbourg, 6/9/1953 to 9/10/1958
  2. Vincenzo Chieppa (Italy) – Rome, 10/10/1958 to 17/2/1961
  3. Jean Reliquet (France)- Roma, 18/2/1961 to 12/6/1963
  4. Frédéric Dumon (Belgium) – Amsterdam, 13/6/1963 to 15/10/1965
  5. Heinrich Bröll (Austria) – Vienne, 16/10/1965 to 7/10/1967
  6. Fritz Decker (Germany) – Luxembourg, 8/10/1967 to 9/4/1970
  7. Oscar Tenorio (Brasil) – Tunis, 10/4/1970 to 11/10/1972
  8. Jean Louis Ropers (France) – Nice, 12/10/1972 to 19/1/1974
  9. Alfons de Vreese (Belgium) – Firenze, 6/10/1974 to 16/10/1976
  10. Otto Kaufmann (Switzerland) – Lausanne, 16/10/1976 to 30/8/1978
  11. Angelo de Mattia (Italy) –  Rio de Janeiro, 30/8/1978 to 25/10/1980
  12. Hédi Saied (Tunisia) –  Tunis, 25/10/1980 to 12/11/1982
  13. Lars Erik Tillinger (Sweden) –  Madeira, 12/11/1982 to 11/10/1984
  14. Felippe Augusto De Miranda Rosa (Brasil) –  Triesenberg (Liechtenstein), 11/10/1984 to 3/10/1986
  15. Brian Walsh (Ireland) –  Roma, 3/10/1986 to 24/8/1988
  16. Günter Woratsch (Austria) –  Berlin, 24/8/1988 to 20/6/1990
  17. Arne Christiansen (Norway) –  Helsinki, 20/6/1990 to 30/11/1992
  18. Philippe Abravanel (Switzerland) –  Madrid, 30/11/1992 to 12/10/1994
  19. Rainer Voss (Germany) –  Athènes, 12/10/1994 to 25/9/1996
  20. Ramon Rodriguez Arribas (Spain) –  Amsterdam, 25/9/1996 to 9/9/1998
  21. Paquerette Girard (France) –  Porto, 9/9/1998 to 20/9/2000
  22. Tarek Bennour (Tunisia) –  Recife, 20/9/2000 to 2/2/2003
  23. Ernst Markel (Austria) – Alicante, 2/2/2003 to 04/11/2004
  24. Sidnei Beneti (Brasil)- Valle de Bravo, 04/11/2004 to 02/10/2006
  25. Maja Tratnik (Slovenia) – Siofok, 02/10/2006 to 11/09/2008
  26. José Maria Bento Company (Spain) – Yerevan, 11/09/2008 to 11/11/2010
  27. Fatoumata Diakite (Ivory Coast) – Dakar, 11/11/2010 to 14/11/2012
  28. Gerhard Reissner (Austria) – Washington D.C., 14/11/2012 to 13/11/2014
  29. Cristina Crespo (Uruguay) – Foz do Iguaçu, 13/11/2014 to 18/10/2016
  30. Christophe Regnard (France) – Mexico City, 18/10/2016 to 17/10/2018
  31. G. Tony Pagone (Australia) – Marrakesh, 17/10/2018 to 11/09/2021
  32. José Manuel Igreja Matos (Portugal) – Rome (on-line), 11/09/2021 to 19/09/2023
  33. Ðuro Sessa (Croatia) – Taipei, 19/09/2023

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