General Assembly
| GA |
Location
|
Date
|
President | Documents |
| 30 | Rome, Italy |
September 2011 |
Catherine Bréchignac | |
| 29 | Maputo, Mozambique |
October 2008 | Goverdhan Mehta | |
| 28 | Suzhou/Shanghai, China |
October 2005 |
Jane Lubchenco | |
| 27 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
September 2002 |
H. Yoshikawa | |
| 26 | Cairo, Egypt |
September 1999 |
W. Arber | |
| 25 | Washington DC, USA |
September 1996 |
J.C.I. Dooge | |
| 24 | Santiago, Chile |
October 1993 |
M.G.K. Menon | |
| 23 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
October 1990 |
M.G.K. Menon | |
| 22 | Beijing, China |
September 1988 |
J.C. Kendrew | |
| 21 | Berne, Switzerland |
September 1986 |
J.C. Kendrew | |
| 20 | Ottawa, Canada |
September 1984 |
J.C. Kendrew | |
| 19 | Cambridge, UK |
September 1982 |
D.A. Bekoe | |
| 18 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
September 1980 |
C. de Jager | |
| 17 | Athens, Greece |
September 1978 |
F.B. Straub | |
| 16 | Washington DC, USA |
October 1976 |
H. Brown | |
| 15 | Istanbul, Turkey |
September 1974 |
J. Coulomb | |
| 14 | Helsinki, Finland |
September 1972 |
V.A. Ambartsumian | |
| 13 | Madrid, Spain |
September 1970 |
V.A. Ambartsumian | |
| 12 | Paris, France |
September 1968 |
J.M. Harrison | |
| 11 | Bombay, India |
January 1966 |
H.W. Thompson | |
| 10 | Vienna, Austria |
November 1963 |
S. Horstadius | |
| 9 | London, UK |
September 1961 |
R. Peters | |
| 8 | Washington DC, USA |
October 1958 |
L.V. Berkner | |
| 7 | Oslo, Norway |
August 1955 |
B. Lindblad | |
| 6 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
October 1952 |
A. von Muralt | |
| 5 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
October 1949 |
J.A. Fleming | |
| 4 | London, UK |
July 1946 |
H.R. Kruyt | |
| 3 | London, UK |
May 1937 |
N.E. Norlund | |
| 2 | Brussels, Belgium |
July 1934 |
G.E. Hale | |
| 1 | Brussels, Belgium |
July 1931 |
E. Picard |
# Extraordinary Sessions of the General Assembly were held in 1980 in Cambridge, UK and 1998 in Vienna, Austria
* The international Research Council, ICSU's predecessor, held its Assemblies in 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928 and 1931 and an Extraordinary General Assembly in 1926 in Brussels
by Jacinta Legg


