Past Presidents

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Term of Service
Sharon Murphy, Providence College, Professor of History 2023 to 2024
Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California, Copenhagen Business School 2022 to 2023
Andrea Lluch, CONICET 2021 to 2022
Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow 2020 to 2021
Edward Balleisen, Duke University 2019 to 2020
Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York 2018 to 2019
Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History 2017 to 2018
Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School 2016 to 2017
Margaret B.W. Graham, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Founding Director, Winthrop Group, LLP, Chairman of Governance and Nominating Committee, Pioneer Investments 2015 to 2016
Mary Yeager, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles 2014 to 2015
Per H. Hansen, Professor in the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School 2013 to 2014
Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University 2012 to 2013
Margaret Levenstein, Michigan Census Research Data Center and Ross School of Business, University of Michigan 2011 to 2012
Richard John, Columbia University, Professor of History and Communications 2010 to 2011
Steven Tolliday, University of Leeds 2009 to 2010
Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University 2008 to 2009
Pamela Laird, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver 2007 to 2008
William J. Hausman, College of William & Mary 2006 to 2007
Richard Sylla, Stern School of Business, New York University 2005 to 2006
JoAnne Yates, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita 2004 to 2005
Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Professor of International Business History, emeritus 2003 to 2004
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University 2002 to 2003
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School 2001 to 2002
Naomi Lamoreaux, Department of Economics, Yale University 2000 to 2001
Larry Neal, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1999 to 2000
Jeremy Atack, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University 1998 to 1999
Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics 1997 to 1998
Mansel G. Blackford, Emeritus Professor of History, The Ohio State University 1996 to 1997
William H. Becker, Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University 1995 to 1996
Edwin J. Perkins, 1939-2018 1994 to 1995
Richard H. K. Vietor, Harvard Business School 1993 to 1994
K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State University 1992 to 1993
Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University 1991 to 1992
William Lazonick, The Academic-Industry Research Network 1990 to 1991
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940-2012 1989 to 1990
Wayne Broehl, Jr., 1922-2006 1988 to 1989
Mira Wilkins, Florida International University 1987 to 1988
Glenn Porter, Hagley Museum and Library 1986 to 1987
Morton Rothstein, University of California-Davis 1985 to 1986
Irene D. Neu Jones, 1915-2012 1984 to 1985
Paul Uselding, - 1983 to 1984
Fred Bateman, 1937-2012 1982 to 1983
Richard W. Barsness, Lehigh University 1981 to 1982
Harold D. Woodman, Purdue University 1980 to 1981
Thomas C. Cochran, 1902-1999 1979 to 1980
Herman Freudenberger, Emeritus, Tulane University 1978 to 1979
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., 1918-2007 1977 to 1978
Donald L. Kemmerer, 1905-1993 1976 to 1977
Ross M. Robertson, - 1976 1975 to 1976
Herman E. Krooss, 1912-1975 1974 to 1975
Harold F. Williamson, 1901-1989 1973 to 1974
Arthur M. Johnson, 1921-2004 1972 to 1973
Richard C. Overton, 1907-1988 1971 to 1972