CIRP Past Presidents Print CIRP Presidents since 1951 2021-2022 Professor Hans Hansen, Denmark 2019-2021 Professor Mamoru Mitsuishi, Japan 2018-2019 Professor Didier Dumur, France 2017-2018 Professor Don Lucca, USA 2016-2017 Professor Yusuf Altintas, Canada 2015-2016 Professor Ekkard Brinksmeier, Germany 2014-2015 Professor Kanji Ueda, Japan 2013-2014 Professor Laszlo Monostori, Hungary 2012-2013 Professor Marco Santochi, Italy 2011-2012 Professor Andrew Nee, Singapore 2010-2011 Professor Fred Van Houten, Netherlands 2009-2010 Professor Gerry Byrne, Ireland 2008-2009 Professor Robert Hocken, USA 2007-2008 Professor Fritz Klocke, Germany 2006-2007 Professor George Chryssolouris, Greece 2005-2006 Professor Leo Alting, Denmark 2004-2005 Professor Ichiro Inasaki, Japan 2003-2004 Professor Michel Veron, France 2002-2003 Professor Francesco Jovane, Italy 2001-2002 Professor Rafi Wertheim, Israel 2000-2001 Professor Hendrick van Brussel, Belgium 1999-2000 Professor Marvin F. De Vries, USA 1998-1999 Professor Hans-Kurt Tönshoff, Germany 1997-1998 Professor Hubert J.J. Kals, Netherlands 1996-1997 Professor Finn-Ola Rasch, Norway 1995-1996 Professor Felix Le Maître, France 1994-1995 Professor I. Ham, Korea 1993-1994 Professor Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Japan 1992-1993 Professor Raffaello Levi, Italy 1991-1992 Professor B.F. von Turkovich, USA 1990-1991 Professor Wilfried König, Germany 1989-1990 Professor Gunnar Sohlenius, Sweden 1988-1989 Professor Pat McKeown, UK 1987-1988 Ir. J.L. Remmerswaal, Netherlands 1986-1987 Professor John Bollinger, USA 1985-1986 Professor Kurt Lange, Germany 1984-1985 Professor T. Sata, Japan 1983-1984 Professor Alec Chisholm, UK 1982-1983 Professor G. Lorenz, Australia 1981-1982 Professor Oeyvind Bjoerke, Norway 1980-1981 Professor E. Matthias, Switzerland 1979-1980 Professor Janez Peklenik, Yugoslavia 1978-1979 Professor G.F. Micheletti, Italy 1977-1978 Professor Guenter Spur, Germany 1976-1977 Professor Roland Weill, France 1975-1976 Mr. Francis Boulger, USA 1974-1975 Professor B.L. Ten Horn, Netherlands 1973-1974 Professor Jan Kaczmarek, Poland 1972-1973 Professor Jacques Peters, Belgium 1971-1972 Professor G. Carro-Cao, Italy 1970-1971 Dr. A. Mottu, Switzerland 1969-1970 Professor G. Pahlitzsch, Germany 1968-1969 Dr. Eugene Merchant, USA 1967-1968 Professor J. Tlusty, Czechoslovakia 1966-1967 Dr. C.A. Gladman, Australia 1965-1966 Professor F. Koenigsberger, UK 1964-1965 Professor H. Opitz, Germany 1963-1964 Professor E. Bodart, Belgium 1962-1963 Professor R. Van Hasselt, Netherlands 1961-1962 Professor M. Pesante, Italy 1960-1961 Professor M.C. Shaw, USA 1959-1960 Dr. D.F. Galloway, UK 1958-1959 Professor O. Kienzle, Germany 1957-1958 Professor O. Bickel, Switzerland 1956-1957 General Pierre Nicolau, France 1955-1956 Professor H. Tornebohm, Sweden 1954-1955 Professor O. Peters, Belgium 1951-1954 Professor A. Portevin, France Prev