Past Presidents, Secretaries-General and Treasurers
| Year | President | Secretary-General | Treasurer |
| Up to 1934 | The Earl of Onslow | J. L. Myers A. H. Broderick |
H. G. Beasley |
| 1934-1938 | Thomas Thomsen | K. Birket-Smith, J. L. Myers, A. H. Broderick | Kjeld Rordam |
| 1946-1948 | Ed. De Jonghe | Frans M. Olbrechts | Fr. Twiesselmann |
| 1948-1952 | P. W. Schmidt | W.Koppers, J. Weninger | |
| 1952-1956 | Floelich G. Rainey | Yvonne Oddon | National Academy of Science, Washington, D. C. |
| 1956-1960 | Henri V. Vallois | A. Leroi-Gourhan, P. Champion | R. d'Harcourt, M. L. Pasquino |
| 1960-1964 | S. P. Tolstov | G. F. Debetz, I. R. Grigoulevitch, A. Leroi-Gourhan | L. N. Terentyeva |
| 1964-1968 | Masao Oka | Lawrence Krader | |
| 1968-1973 | Sol Tax | Lawrence Krader | |
| 1973-1978 | Lalita P. Vidyarthi | Lawrence Krader | |
| 1978-1983 | Cyril S. Belshaw | Eric Sunderland | |
| 1983-1988 | Hubert Maver | Eric Sunderland | |
| 1988-1993 | Lourdes Arizpe | Eric Sunderland | |
| 1993-1998 | Vinson H. Sutlive | Eric Sunderland | |
| 1998-2003 | Eric Sunderland | Peter J. M. Nas | Tomoko Hamada |
| 2003-2009 | Luis A. Vargas | Peter J. M. Nas | Tomoko Hamada |
| 2009-2013 | Peter J. M. Nas | Junji Koizumi | Andrew D. Spiegel |
| 2013-2018 | Faye Venetia Harrison | Junji Koizumi | Andrew D. Spiegel |
