List of Presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): the deliberative consultative body of the Council of Europe.

Period	Name	Country	Party
1949	Édouard Herriot (interim)	France	Radical Party
1949–51	Paul-Henri Spaak	Belgium	Socialist Party
1952–54	François de Menthon	France	Popular Republican Movement
1954–56	Guy Mollet	France	Socialist Party
1956–59	Fernand Dehousse	Belgium	Socialist Party
1959	John Edwards	United Kingdom	Labour Party
1960–63	Per Federspiel	Denmark	Venstre
1963–66	Pierre Pflimlin	France	Popular Republican Movement
1966–69	Sir Geoffrey de Freitas	United Kingdom	Labour Party
1969–72	Olivier Reverdin	Switzerland	Liberal Party
1972–75	Giuseppe Vedovato	Italy	Christian Democracy
1975–78	Karl Czernetz	Austria	Social Democratic Party
1978–81	Hans J. de Koster	Netherlands	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
1981–82	José Maria de Areilza	Spain	Union of the Democratic Centre
1983–86	Karl Ahrens	Germany	Social Democratic Party
1986–89	Louis Jung	France	Centre of Social Democrats
1989–92	Andreas Björck	Sweden	Liberal People's Party
1992	Geoffrey Finsberg	United Kingdom	Conservative Party
1992–95	Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez	Spain	Socialist Workers' Party
1996–99	Leni Fischer	Germany	Christian Democratic Union
1999–2002	Russell Johnston	United Kingdom	Liberal Democrats
2002–2004	Peter Schieder	Austria	Social Democratic Party
2005–2008	René van der Linden	Netherlands	Christian Democratic Appeal
2008–2010	Lluís Maria De Puig	Spain	Socialist Workers' Party
2010–2012	Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu	Turkey	Justice and Development Party
2012–2014	Jean-Claude Mignon	France	UMP
2014–2016	Anne Brasseur	Luxembourg	Democratic Party
2016–	Pedro Agramunt	Spain	People's Party