• President 2024: Ezenwa Olumba, Royal Holloway University
• President 2023: George Beccaloni, Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
• President 2022: Noel-Ann Bradshaw from the London Metropolitan University
• President 2021: Adam Rutherford, University College London
• President 2019: Professor Neil Stewart, Warwick Business School
• President 2018: Dr John Durant, MIT Museum
• President 2017: Professor Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
• President 2016: Professor Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum
• President 2015: Professor Barry C Smith, School of Advanced Study, University of London
• President 2014: Jonathan Porritt, CBE
  
  Co-Recorder: Susan Watt
  Co-Recorder: Anne-Maria Brennan