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| Year | President | Place | Title of the annual presidents conference |
| 2021 | Nicola Spence | Birmingham | Protecting Plants Protecting Life |
| 2020 | Nicola Spence | no meeting | COVID19 lockdown – rescheduled |
| 2019 | Dawn Arnold | Bristol | Arms race: Evolution of plant pathogens and their hosts |
| 2018 | Murray Grant | Warwick | What lies within: imaging plant-pathogen interactions |
| 2017 | Richard Oliver | Nottingham | Fungal control and exploitation |
| 2016 | Julie Flood | Oxford | Food security, biosecurity and trade – the role of plant health |
| 2015 | Gary Foster | Bristol | The impact of plant pathogens on everyday lives |
| 2014 | Lesley Torrance | St Andrews | Some like it hot (abiotic stresses plus disease; climate change) |
| 2013 | Mike Shaw | Birmingham | Visions of plant disease management in 2050 |
| 2012 | James Brown | Norwich | Fitness costs and trade-offs in plant-parasite interactions |
| 2011 | G Salmond | Cambridge | The impact of bioactive small molecules in plant pathology |
| 2010 | Sarah Gurr | no meeting | no meeting |
| 2009 | Sarah Gurr | Oxford | Darwin to disease: crops and their pathogens |
| 2008 | Graham Jellis | QMC, London | Cereal pathosystems |
| 2007 | Richard Cooper | Bath | Attack and defense in plant disease |
| 2006 | Peter Mills | Copenhagen | Sustainable disease management: the European persepctive |
| 2005 | Phil Russell | Nottingham | Plant pathology with a purpose |
| 2004 | Stuart Wale | Aberdeen | Discovery, development and delivery in plant pathology |
| 2003 | John Lucas | Nottingham | Plant pathogen genomics: from sequence to application |
| 2002 | Roger Plumb + Mark Holderness | Imperial, London | Plant pathology and global food security |
| 2001 | (Chris Gilliigan) | no meeting | no meeting |
| 2000 | John Mansfield | Wye | Plant pathogen interactions: understanding mechanisms of resistance and pathogenicity for disease control |
| 1999 | Mike Jeger | Oxford | Biotic interactions in Plant Pathogen Associations |
| 1998 | David Ingram | Warwick | |
| 1997 | Nigel Hardwick | York | |
| 1996 | Peter R Scott | Scott | |
| 1995 | I. R. Crute | ||
| 1994 | C. E. Caten | ||
| 1993 | D. J. Doyle | ||
| 1992 | J. P Blakeman | ||
| 1991 | R. Johnson | ||
| 1990 | J. M. Thresh | ||
| 1989 | J. R. Coley-Smith | ||
| 1988 | J. T. Fletcher | ||
| 1987 | T. F. Preece | ||
| 1986 | Dr. B. E. J. Wheeler | ||
| 1985 | Prof. P. R. Day | ||
| 1984 | Mr. E. Lester | ||
| 1983 | Dr. M. S. Wolfe | ||
| 1982 | Prof. R. K. S. Wood | ||
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