Membership – W.P.O. Governing Board
        
         
AUSTRALIA Alfred Silvester Garoni 1964 to 1986
  David Chugg 1986 to 1997
  Rhonda Smith 1998 to 2013
  Peter Gladwell 2013 to  
         
AUSTRIA Ingobert Altman 1959 to 1961
  Gunter Daghofer 1961 to 1962
  Franz Geiger 1962 to 1991
  Bernhard Keiler 1991 to 1998
  Michael Deimel 1998 to 2009
  Bernhard Altmann 2009 to  
         
BELGIUM Jules E. Cocu 1956 to 1968
  Joris Merckx 1969 to 1983
  Ms Lut Wettenburg 1984 to 1988
  Ms Lut de Bruyne 1989 to 1991
  Karel van Dijck 1992 to 2001
  Johan Merckx 2001 to 2018
  Karel van Dijck 2019 to  
         
CANADA John A. Carroll 1952 to 1956
  J.D. Thomas 1952 to 1957
  Alex Mc Kinney 1957 to 1973
  Russell Morrison 1973 to 1977
  Raynmall MacNeill 1977 to 1982
  Robert Timbers 1982 to 2000
  Robert Brown 2001 to 2011
  Jim Sache 2012 to 2022
  Tom Ryall 2022    
         
CZECH REPUBLIC Dusan Hutla 1965 to 1975
  Jiri Donth 1975 to 1993
  Zdeněk Růžek 1993 to 2005
  Martin Sedlácèk 2006 to 2010
  Jan Cholensky 2011 to  
         
CROATIA Tugomir Majdak 2005 to 2016
  Ivica Prpic 2017 to  
         
DENMARK Paul Bildsoe Hansen 1953 to 1959
  Eigil Hansen 1959 to 1962
  Daniel Jepsen 1962 to 1967
  Kristen Haltrup 1967 to 1973
  Carl Allesø 1974 to 1993
  Bjarne Larsen 1994 to 2001
  Lars Gammelvind 2002 to  
         
ENGLAND Alfred Hall 1952 to 1953
  Stanley G. Powell 1954 to 1957
  Will T. Baker 1958 to 1973
  Hubert H. Robson 1973 to 1984
  Ken Chappell 1984 to 2016
  John Hill 2017 to  
         
         
ESTONIA Ants Laansalu 1989 to 2008
  Arvi Tammel 2009 to 2011
  Margus Ameerikas 2012 to  
         
FINLAND Viano K. Neuvenon 1952 to 1959
  A. Heimo Ketola 1959 to 1964
  Walter Breitenstein 1964 to 1975
  Seppo Kartunen 1975 to 1976
  Pentti V. Lindsberg 1976 to 1981
  Mikko Lisakkila 1981 to 1984
  Lipo Mattila 1984 to 1985
  Mats Ohman 1986 to 2003
  Juhani Kivistö 2004 to 2014
  Ismo Nakki 2014 to  
         
FRANCE Robert Perron 1957 to 1962
  Pierre Monnier 1962 to 1968
  Alfred Bohr 1984 to 2008
  Jean Francois Morin 2008 to 2014
  Bernard Lavire 2014 to 2019
  Freddy Bohr 2020 to  
         
GERMANY EAST Anton Kunze 1967 to 1972
         
GERMANY Walter Feuerlein 1952 to 1974
  Karl-Heinz Gebbers 1959 to 1968
  Karl Kemmner 1975 to 1984
  Walter Lange 1984 to 2002
  Gebhard Betz 2002 to 2016
  Artur Jäkle 2016 to  
         
HUNGARY Kalman Lammell 1962 to 1978
  Pal Vigh 1979 to 1983
  Istvan Meszaros 1984 to 1990
  Istvan Jori Dr. 1996 to 2012
  Sándor Soós 2012 to  
         
         
ITALY Loris A. Carreri 1958 to 1961
  Vasco Ferrari 1961 to 1966
  Pierfranco Faimali 1986 to 1996
  Nicola Nardone 1996 to 2006
  Rocco Messere 2006 to 2010
         
KENYA John R.Harris 1973 to 1981
  Geoffrey Kunyiha 1982 to 1983
  Walter Kilele 1984 to 1995
  Stephen K.K. Toroitich 1996 to 2000
  Stephen K.K. Toroitich 2005 to 2007
  John Nyakiba 2008 to 2011
  Paul Njuguna 2011 to 2015
  Richard Aiyabei 2015 to  
         
KOSOVO Bekim Hoxha 2012 to  
         
LATVIA Aldis Zaikovskis 1989 to 2000
  Aigars Laurinovics 2000 to 2007
  Aigars Laurinovics 2018 to  
         
LITHUANIA Virginius Feiza 1999 to 2007
  Vaclovas Boguzas 2007 to  
         
MACEDONIA Pero Mitrev 2009 to  
         
MOROCCO Mohamed Medouar 1986 to 1994
         
NETHERLANDS Arie C. Stehouwer 1952 to 1991
  Hans Spieker 1991 to 1999
  Willemien Spieker-Looman 2000 to 2014
  Remmelt Panmann 2014 to  
         
NEW ZEALAND George M. Scott 1961 to 1966
  Evan A.E. Fairhall 1966 to 1975
  Ian Blair 1976 to 2006
  Colin Millar 2006 to  
         
NORTHERN IRELAND Thomas C. Reid 1956 to 1977
  Lawrence Mc Millan 1977 to 1997
  James Mc Gladdery 1997 to 2002
  William Hood 2002 to 2014
  Richard Gill 2014 to 2018
  Adrian Jamison 2019 to  
         
NORWAY Tore Wiig 1953 to 1956
  Ole Brandsrud 1957 to 1958
  Einar Wold 1958 to 1968
  Arnor Njos 1970 to 1972
  Vidar Home 1973 to 1978
  Einar Moe 1979 to 1997
  Rasmus Mjolhus 1997 to  
         
PAKISTAN Sardar M.G. Khan 1956 to 1956
         
PORTUGAL Carlos Tiberio 1984 to 1988
         
REPUBLIC OF J.J. Bergin 1952 to 1954
IRELAND Sean O’Farrell 1961 to 1972
  Michael Connolly 1973 to 1982
  David O’Connor 1983 to 1988
  Anna May McHugh 1988 to  
         
RUSSIA Roman Ivanov 2009 to 2017
  Alexey Troitskiy 2018 to  
         
SCOTLAND Alec. G.B. Greenhill 1991 to 1999
  Robert Anderson 2000 to 2004
  James Walker 2004 to 2006
  William Gordon 2006 to 2015
  Rab Birrell 2015 to 2019
  Joyce Mitchell 2019 to  
         
SERBIA Petar Nenic 2011 to  
         
SLOVAK REPUBLIC Milan Macák 1999 to 2009
         
SLOVENIA Alojz Avsic 1991 to 2005
  Marjan Kardinar 2005 to  
         
SOUTH AFRICA Rudi du Toit 2013   2016
  Warren Blaker 2016   2017
         
SPAIN Angel Miguel Diez 1973 to 1980
  Arturo Arenillas Asin 1981 to 1999
  Miguel Cervantes 2000 to 2004
  Fernanda Pastor 2004 to 2015
  Miguel Anguel 2015 to 2016
         
SWEDEN Bengt Stegander/Svensson 1952 to 1959
  Sven E. Persson 1959 to 1960
  Sven E. Pellback 1960 to 1963
  Torbjorn Sjogren 1963 to 1969
  G. Gronevick 1969 to 1970
  Pertti Niinisto 1970 to 1971
  Sigvard Johansson 1972 to 1982
  Goran Ohlsson 1983 to 1986
  Ms Pirjo Rinta-Koski 1986 to 1988
  Bengt Martinsson 1988 to 2003
  Per Anders Persson 2004 to 2011
  Christer Rosenberg 2012 to 2019
  Per Anders Persson 2020 to 2021
  Bengt Martinsson 2022 to  
         
SWITZERLAND Ms Elizabeth Staub 1982 to 1988
  Hans Zellweger 1988 to 2002
  Willi Zollinger-König 2002 to  
         
U.S.A. Alf Larsen 1953 to 1957
  Earl K. Devore 1957 to 1962
  Leo Drake 1962 to 1969
  Ned R. Rhoades 1970 to 1974
  Glen Brown 1975 to 2000
  William Goettemoeller 2001 to 2004
  Richard Pedersen 2004 to 2019
  Conrad Gruber 2020 to  
         
WALES Ellis Lloyd Jones 1991 to 1996
  A. Ellis Davies 1996 to 2003
  David Jones 2003 to 2011
  John Nixon 2012 to 2017
  Gareth Jones 2018 to  
         
YUGOSLAVIA Slavko Filipi 1961 to 1966
  Jakob Cezek 1967 to 1970
  Teodar Markovic 1971 to 1972
  Albert Khami 1973 to 1975
  Petar Nenic 1984 to 1989
         
ZIMBABWE Eric R. Linnell 1973 to 1975
  Alec. Y. Philip 1975 to 1984
  Simon Faed 1984 to 1986
  Robert Flanagan 1986 to 1999
  Roy Fuller 1999 to 2001
  Robert Flanagan (dep.) 2002 to 2002