2006 - 2007    Paulo Fontes (Portugal)

2005 -             Thomas Nilsson (Sweden)

2004 - 2005    Karin Bagge (Sweden) 

2001- 2004     Alex Bols (UK)

1999 - 2001    Manja Klemencic (Slovenia)

1996 - 1998    Katherin Vangen (Norway)

1994 - 1996    Stephan Grogan (Ireland)

1994               Richard Hill (UK)

1990 - 1994   Sarah Adams (UK)

1986 - 1990   Brian Carty (Ireland)

1982 - 1985   Björn Sundström (Sweden)

(Between 2000 - 2005 the position of Director was renamed to Secretary General, to reflect the political mandate associated with the post at the time)