List of presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

The president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and, together with the president-elect and past president, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.

Duties
According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs (2003), the president makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS). In addition, the president is an ex officio member of the corporation of the National Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.

20th century

 * 1936	Henry L. Rietz
 * 1937	Walter A. Shewhart
 * 1938	Burton H. Camp
 * 1939	Paul R. Rider
 * 1940	Samuel S. Wilks
 * 1941	Harold Hotelling
 * 1942-43	Cecil C. Craig
 * 1944	Walter A. Shewhart
 * 1945	W. Edwards Deming
 * 1946	William Gemmell Cochran
 * 1947	William Feller
 * 1948	Abraham Wald
 * 1949	Jerzy Neyman
 * 1950	Joseph Leo Doob
 * 1951	Paul S. Dwyer
 * 1952	Meyer Abraham Girshick
 * 1953	Morris H. Hansen
 * 1954	Edwin G. Olds
 * 1955	Henry Scheffé
 * 1956	David Blackwell
 * 1957	Alexander Mood
 * 1958	Leonard Jimmie Savage
 * 1959	Jacob Wolfowitz
 * 1960	John Tukey
 * 1961	Erich L. Lehmann
 * 1962	Albert H. Bowker
 * 1963	Theodore W. Anderson
 * 1964	Z. W. Birnbaum
 * 1965	Herbert Solomon
 * 1966	Herbert Robbins
 * 1967	Ted Harris
 * 1968	Herman Chernoff
 * 1969	Wassily Hoeffding
 * 1970	Jack Kiefer
 * 1971	William Kruskal
 * 1972	Raj Chandra Bose
 * 1973	Lucien Le Cam
 * 1974	R. R. Bahadur
 * 1975	Frederick Mosteller
 * 1976	Donald L. Burkholder
 * 1977	C. R. Rao
 * 1978	Elizabeth Scott
 * 1979	Samuel Karlin
 * 1980	George E. P. Box
 * 1981	Peter J. Bickel
 * 1982	Mark Kac
 * 1983	Patrick Billingsley
 * 1984	Ingram Olkin
 * 1985	Oscar Kempthorne
 * 1986	Paul Meier
 * 1987	Ronald Pyke
 * 1988	Bradley Efron
 * 1989	Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
 * 1990	Shanti S. Gupta
 * 1991	David O. Siegmund
 * 1992	Willem van Zwet
 * 1993	Larry Brown
 * 1994	Stephen Stigler
 * 1995	David R. Brillinger
 * 1996	James O. Berger
 * 1997	Nancy Reid
 * 1998	Persi Diaconis
 * 1999	Stephen Fienberg

21st century

 * 2000	Morris Eaton
 * 2001	Bernard Silverman
 * 2002	Iain M. Johnstone
 * 2003	S. R. S. Varadhan
 * 2004	Terry Speed
 * 2005	Louis Chen Hsiao Yun
 * 2006	Thomas G. Kurtz
 * 2007	Jim Pitman
 * 2008	Jianqing Fan
 * 2009  Nanny Wermuth
 * 2010	J. Michael Steele
 * 2011  Peter Gavin Hall
 * 2012  Ruth J. Williams
 * 2013  Hans-Rudolf Künsch
 * 2014  Bin Yu
 * 2015 	Erwin Bolthausen
 * 2016 	Richard Davis
 * 2017  Jon A. Wellner
 * 2018  Alison Etheridge
 * 2019  Xiao-Li Meng
 * 2020  Susan Murphy
 * 2021  Regina Liu
 * 2022  Krzysztof Burdzy
 * 2023  Peter Bühlmann
 * 2024  Michael Kosorok