Past office holders
President
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1946–55)
Life Presidents
E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1967–73), R.W.Firth (1975–2002)
Chairs
E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1946–54) I. Schapera (1954–57) R.W. Firth (1958–61) M. Gluckman (1962–66) E.R. Leach (1966–70) M. Fortes (1970–73) J. La Fontaine (1973–77) A.L. Epstein (1977–81) E.W. Ardener (1981–85) P.G. Rivière (1985–89) D. Parkin (1989–93) S. Wallman (1993–97) P.Caplan (1997–2001) R. Fardon (2001-2005) J. Gledhill (2005-2009) James Fairhead (2009-13) Veronica Strang (2013-17), Nigel Rapport (2017-2020)
Secretaries
M. Gluckman (1952–57) L.P. Mair (1957–60) M.P. Banton (1960–64) I.M. Lewis (1964–67) P.C. Lloyd (1967–71) G.K. Garbett (1971–75) J.H.R. Davis (1975–78) R.D. Grillo (1979–82) R.F. Ellen (1982–85) A.J. Barnard (1985–89) J.S. Eades (1989–91) H. Moore (1991–94) N. Rapport (1994–98) J. Eade (1998–2002) I. Jean-Klein (2002-2006) Simone Abram (2006-2010) Catharine Alexander (2010-11), Zemirah Moffat (2011-2015), Cathrine Degnen (2015-2019), Jon Mair (2019-2020)
Treasurers
H.S. Morris (1960–63) A. Mayer (1963–64) A. Forge (1964–67) M. Ruel (1967–71) T.G.I. Hamnett (1971–75) J.W. Tyler (1975–79) S.R. Charsley (1979–83) R.F. Byron (1983–87) J. Webber (1987–91) D. Riches (1991–95) I. Edgar (1995–99) J. Skinner (1999–2003) L Josephides (2004-07) Raminder Kaur (2007-12) Lotte Hoek (2012-2016)