Indian Economic Association has the glorious past of having a large number of luminaries of the profession as the Presidents at the Annual Conferences. Below is given a list of the Former Presidents of the Indian Economic Association, along with the information on the Venue of the Annual Conference and the years of the Conference:

Name	Venue	Year
Prof. C.J. Hamilton (Convener)	Calcutta	1917
Prof. Percy Anstey	Bombay	1918
Mr. Hiles and others	Madras	1919
Dr. Gilbert Slater	Allahabad	1920
Prof. H.S. Jevons	Patna	1922
Sir J.C. Coyajee	Lahore	1923
Sri M. Visesvaraya	Bombay	1924
Sri Lallubhai Samaldas	Banaras	1925
Prof C.J. Hamilton	Madras	1925
Prof. M.L. Tannan	Kolkata	1927
Sir M.L. Darling	Lucknow	1928
Prof. V.G. Kale	Mysore	1929
Mr. N.S. SubbaRao	Allahabad	1929
Dr. P.N. Banerjee	Lahore	1931
Prof. T.K. Aiyer	Bombay	1932
Dr. R.K. Mukherjee	Delhi	1933
Prof. C.D. Thompson	Annamalainagar	1934
Prof. C.N. Vakil	Patna	1934
Sir Manohar Lal	Dacca	1936
Dr. John Mathai	Agra	1937
Dr. P.J. Thomas	Hyderabad	1937
Dr. Gyan Chand	Nagpur	1938
Dr. L.C. Jain	Allahabad	1940
Prof. D.R. Gadgil	Mysore	1940
Dr. J.P. Niyogi	Bombay	1941
Dr. B.V.N. Naidu	Madras	1943
Prof. L.K. Hyder	Delhi	1944
Prof. D.G. Karve	Lahore	1945
Prof. S.K. Rudra	Karachi	1946
Dr. P.S. Lokanathan	Kolkata	1947
Dr. J.C. Sinha	Hyderabad	1948
Prof. V.K.R.V. Rao	Waltair	1949
Prof. V.L. D'Souza	Aligarh	1950
Dr. H.L. Dey	Patna	1951
Prof. P.A. Wadia	Trivandrum	1952
Dr. S. Keshava lyangar	Jaipur	1953
Dr. R. Balakrishna	Agra	1954
Dr. B.N. Ganguli	Poona	1955
Dr. S.K. Muranjan	Cuttack	1956
Prof. B.R. Shenoy	Nagpur	1957
Prof. M.H. Gopal	Lucknow	1958
Prof. J.J. Anjaria	Annamalainagar	1959
Prof. A.K. Dasgupta	Chandigarh	1960
Dr. B.K. Madan	Dharwar	1961
Prof.V.R. Pillai	Ahmedabad	1962
Prof. S.K. Basu	Bombay	1963
Prof. D.T. Lakdawala	Baroda	1964
Prof. N.V. Sovani	Banaras	1965
Dr. I.G. Patel	kolkata	1966
Dr. M.V. Mathur	Madras	1967
Prof. J.K Mehta	Hyderabad	1968
Prof. S.N. Sen	Patna	1969
Prof. M.L. Dantwala	Gauhati	1970
Dr. Sadasiv Mishra	Delhi	1971
Dr. K.N. Raj	Bodh-Gaya	1972
Prof. V.M. Dandekar	Tiruchirapalli	1973
Dr. K.S. Adhiseshiah	Waltair	1974
Dr. Bhabatosh Datta	Bhubaneshwar	1975
Dr. K.S. Krishnaswamy	Mysore	1976
Dr. P.R. Brahmananda	Madras	1977
Dr. Gautam Mathur	Bombay	1978
Dr. V. Shanmugasundaram	Surat	1979
Dr. P.D. Hajela	Poona	1980
Dr. D.M. Nanjundappa	Tirupati	1981
Dr. Sarveshwara Rao	Jabalpur	1982
Dr. Kamta Prasad	Bangalore	1983
Dr. D.L. Narayana	Agra	1985
Dr. Manmohan Singh	Ahmedabad	1985
Dr. S. Chakravarty	New Delhi	1986
Prof. Alakh Ghosh	Jaipur	1987
Dr. C. Rangarajan	Kolkata	1988
Prof. Amartya Sen	Trivandrum	1989
Dr. M. Madaiah	Muzaffarpur	1990
Prof. Ruddar Datt	Anantapur	1991
Prof. A.M. Khusro	Indore	1993
Dr. V.R. Panchamukhi	Bombay	1994
Dr. Raja J. Chellaih	Mysore	1994
Prof. Deepak Nayyar	Chandigarh	1995
Prof. Kanta Ahuja	Gwalior	1996
Dr. D.S. Awasthi	Hyderabad	1997
Dr. G.S. Monga	Bangalore	1998
Dr. Ajit Kumar Sinha	Amritsar	1999
Dr. G.S. Bhalla	Jammu	2000
Dr. R.S Bawa	Vellore	2001
Prof. C.T. Kurien	Thiruvananthapuram	2002
Dr. Raj Kumar Sen	Kolhapur	2003
Dr. Yashodha Shanmugasundaram	Varanasi	2004
Prof. T.S. Papola	Vishakhapatnam	2005
Prof. K.C. Reddy	Kurukshetra	2006
Professor. B.B. Bhattacharya	Srinagar	2007
Professor G.K. Chadha	Udaipur	2008
Professor C.H. Hanumantha Rao	Bhubaneswar	2009
Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat	Chandigarh	2010
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia	Pune	2011
Prof. Bal Chandra Mungekar	Visakhapatnam	2012
Prof. L.K. Mohana Rao	Chennai	2013
Dr. Y.V. Reddy	Udaipur	2014
Prof. Kaushik Basu	Hyderabad	2015
Prof. R. Radhakrishna	Tirupathi	2016
Dr. C. Rangarajan	Guntur	2017
Dr G. Viswanathan	Vellore	2018
Dr G. Viswanathan	Raipur	2019