CSSI Presidents

The CSSI current President is Lea Sistonen, serving from 2023 to 2024. The President-Elect is Mehdi Mollapour, who will take office from 2025 to 2026, and the Immediate Past President is Valerie Mezger, who served in the 2021-2022 term.

1999 – Lawrence Hightower (USA), Founding President

2000 – Takashi Yura (Japan)

2001 – Richard Morimoto (USA)

2002 – Robert M. Tanguay (Canada)

2003 – Olivier Bensaude (France)

2004 – Kazuhiro Nagata (Japan)

2005 – Stuart Calderwood (US

2006 – Peter Csermely (Hungary)

2007 – Gabriele Multhoff (Germany)

2008 – Noriyuki Sato (Japan)

2009-2010 – Antonio De Maio (USA)

2011-2012 – Robert M. Tanguay (Canada)

2013-2014 – A. Graham Pockley (UK)

2015-2016 – Tangchun Wu (PR China)

2017-2018 – M. Gabriella Santoro (Italy)

2019-2020 – Leonard Neckers (USA)

2021-2022 – Valérie Lallemand-Mezger (France)

2023 -2024 – Lea Sistonen (Finland)

All other Presidents were also President-elect and Immediate Past President except for Lawrence Hightower who was not President-elect.