1983-1986 Gabriele Stein (Lady Quirk), then at Universität Heidelberg, Germany
1986-1988 Noel E. Osselton, then at the University of Newcastle, Great Britain
1988-1990 Antonio Zampolli, then at Università di Pisa, Italy
1990-1992 Reinhard R. K. Hartmann, then at the University of Exeter, Great Britain
1992-1994 Sue Atkins, then at Oxford University Press, Great Britain
1994-1996 Frank Knowles, then at the University of Aston, Great Britain
1996-1998 Henri Béjoint, then at Université Lumière-Lyon, France
1998-2000 Ole Norling-Christensen, then at Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, Denmark
2000-2002 Krista Varantola, then at Tampereen yliopisto, Finland
2002-2004 Thierry Fontenelle, then at Université de Liège, Belgium
2004-2006 Marie-Hélène Corréard, then at Xerox Research, France
2006-2008 Anna Braasch, then at Københavns Universitet, Denmark
2008-2010 Carla Marello, then at l’Università di Torino, Italy
2010-2012 Geoffrey Williams, then at l’Université de Bretagne-Sud, France
2012-2014 Janet de Cesaris, then at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2014-2016 Lars Trap-Jensen, then at Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, Denmark