| Year | President | City |
| 1905-1908 | Mr. Adolf Carl | Copenhagen |
| 1908-1908 | Mr. Thomas Cairns | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 1908-1911 | Mr. Lars Krogius | Helsinki |
| 1911-1912 | Mr. Johan Hansen | Copenhagen |
| 1912-1923 | Sir William Noble | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 1923-1927 | Mr. Theodore E. Salvesen | Leith |
| 1927-1929 | Mr. John Denholm | Greenock |
| 1929-1933 | Sir William A. Souter | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 1933-1938 | Major T. Russell Cairns | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 1938-1949 | Mr. Fr. Odfjell | Bergen |
| 1949-1951 | Mr. Emanuel Högberg | Stockholm |
| 1951-1953 | Sir John Fisher | Barrow-in-Furness |
| 1953-1955 | Mr. Thomas S. Falck Jr. | Bergen |
| 1955-1957 | Mr. Eigil Hahn-Petersen | Copenhagen |
| 1957-1959 | Mr. Birger Krogius | Helsinki |
| 1959-1961 | Mr. R.F. Scovell | Leith |
| 1961-1963 | Mr. J.G.A. Fontein | Rotterdam |
| 1963-1967 | Mr. Jack C.H. Peugniez | Paris |
| 1967-1969 | Mr. Gerhard Hansen-Stahl | Bremen |
| 1969-1971 | Mr. B.D. Odfjell | Bergen |
| 1971-1973 | Mr. Lennart Parkfelt | Gothenburg |
| 1973-1975 | Mr. David C. Souter | Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 1975-1977 | Mr. Nils L. Wetterstein | Turku |
| 1977-1979 | Mr. Tristan Vieljeux | Paris |
| 1979-1981 | Mr. G. Warnderink-Vinke | Amsterdam |
| 1981-1983 | Mr. J.D. Lauritzen | Copenhagen |
| 1983-1985 | Mr. Eduardo Bages | Madrid |
| 1985-1987 | Mr. Atle Jebsen | Bergen |
| 1987-1989 | Dr. Helmut Sohmen | Hong Kong |
| 1989-1991 | Mr. George Livanos | Piraeus |
| 1991-1993 | Sir Ian Denholm | Glasgow |
| 1993-1995 | Mr. Cheng-Eng Lua | Singapore |
| 1995-1997 | Mr. Fridtjof Lorentzen | Oslo |
| 1997-1999 | Mr. Ronald Bergman | Stockholm |
| 1999-2001 | Mr. Philippe Poirier d'Angé d'Orsay | Paris |
| 2001-2003 | Mr. Michael Everard | London |
| 2003-2005 | Mr. C.C. Tung | Hong Kong, China |
| 2005-2007 | Mr. Knud Pontoppidan | Copenhagen |
| 2007-2009 | Mr. Philip Embiricos | Athens |
| 2009-2011 | Mr. Robert Lorenz-Meyer | Hamburg |
| 2011-2013 | Mr. Yudhishthir Khatau | Mumbai |
| 2013-2015 | Mr. John Denholm | Glasgow |
| 2015-2017 | Mr. Philippe Louis-Dreyfus | Paris |
| 2017-2019 | Mr. Anastasios Papagiannopoulos | Athens |
| 2019-2021 | Mrs. Sadan Kaptanoglu | Istanbul |
| 2021-2023 | Ms. Sabrina Chao | Hong Kong, China |