2022 Kraków:
Honorary membership awarded to: Amir Szold (Israel), Horacio Asbun (USA)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Reinhard Bittner (Germany)
2021 Barcelona WCES:
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Mario Morino (Italy), Miguel A. Cuesta Valentin (The Netherlands)
2020 Kraków (congress was virtual due to COVID-19, ceremony moved to Barcelona 2021):
Honorary membership awarded to: Aurora Pryor (USA), I-Shu Chen (Taiwan), Davide Lomanto (Singapore)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Richard Satava (USA)
2019 Sevilla:
Honorary membership awarded to: Hyung-Ho Kim (Korea), Masahiko Watanabe (Japan)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Wolfgang Wayand (Austria)
2018 London:
Honorary membership awarded to: Steven Wexner (USA), Yuko Kitagawa (Japan)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Jack Jakimowicz (The Netherlands)
2017 Frankfurt:
Honorary membership awarded to: Edmund Neugebauer (Germany)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Alberto Montori (Italy)
2016 Amsterdam:
Honorary membership awarded to: Lee Swanstrom (USA/France)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Abe Fingerhut (France)
2015 Bucharest:
Honorary membership awarded to: Michel Gagner (Canada)
Lifetime achievement awarded to: Sir Alfred Cuschieri (UK)
2014 Paris:
Honorary membership awarded to: John Hunter (USA) and Chinnusamy Palanivelu (India)
Lifetime achievement awarded to the “Lap choly musketeers”: Philippe Mouret (France) †, Jacques Périssat (France) and François Dubois (France)
