The President of the Universal Esperanto Association ( eo, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA) is the elected leader of the

Universal Esperanto Association The Universal Esperanto Association ( eo, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA), also known as the World Esperanto Association, is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with 5501 individual members in 121 countries and 9215 th ...

and the chief executive of the UEA steering committee (''Estraro'').

History

Prior to 1920 the President of the UEA governed the UEA Central Committee (''Komitato''), because no separation yet existed between the ''Estraro'' and the ''Komitato''. Over the decades the functioning of the presidency remained unchanged, and the president's relationship with the other ''Estraro'' members and the UEA general secretary depended on the times and on his or her nature, with correspondence between the president and the general secretary providing practical guidance for the UEA. According to the plan of Ivo Lapenna (1955), the president was to have mostly an executive role, whereas the general secretary would perform everyday duties, but this system was followed only during the time when Lapenna himself was general secretary (1955–1964). From 1936 to 1947 the majority of the organized

Esperanto movement The Esperanto movement, less commonly referred to as Esperantism ( eo, Esperantismo), is a movement to disseminate the use of the planned international language Esperanto.See the definition in theDeklaracio pri la Esenco de la Esperantismo (" ...

left the UEA, headquartered in Switzerland, to establish the rival International Esperanto League with offices in Britain. In 1947 the two groups reunited. Because Louis Bastien, the sole IEL president, had previously been UEA president, his name appears here integrated into the main list.

Chronology

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Swiss period

*1908–1916: Harold Bolingbroke Mudie (Great Britain) *1916–1919: (vacant) *1919–1920: Hector Hodler (Switzerland) *1920–1924: Eduard Stettler (Switzerland) *1924–1928: Edmond Privat (Switzerland) *1928–1934: Eduard Stettler (Switzerland) *1934–1936: Louis Bastien (France) *1936–1941: Karl Max Liniger (Switzerland) *1941–1947: Hans Hermann Kürsteiner (Switzerland)

British period

*1947–1947: ''( Internacia Esperanto-Ligo)'' Louis Bastien (France) *1947–1956:

Ernfrid Malmgren Ernfrid Cart Malmgren (Köping, 3 November 1899 – 28 March 1970) was a Swedish Esperantist, teacher, and president of the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). Publications * ''Esperanto kaj ĝia instruado en lernejoj'' (laŭ materialo de ...

(Sweden)

Dutch period

*1956–1960: Giorgio Canuto (Italy) *1960–1962: Harry W. Holmes (acting) (Great Britain) *1962–1964:

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(Japan) *1964–1964: Harry W. Holmes (acting) (Great Britain) *1964–1974: Ivo Lapenna (Great Britain) *1974–1980: Humphrey R. Tonkin (U.S.) *1980–1986:

Grégoire Maertens Grégoire Maertens (born 1 January 1924) is a West-Flemish Esperantist who was a member of the ''Estraro'' (steering committee) for the UEA (''Universala Esperanto-Asocio'' or World Esperanto Association) from 1977 until 1992. From 1980 until 198 ...

(Belgium) *1986–1989: Humphrey R. Tonkin (U.S.) *1989–1995:

John C. Wells John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics. Career Wells ea ...

(Great Britain) *1995–1998:

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(Korea) *1998–2001: Keppel Enderby (Australia) *2001–2007:

Renato Corsetti Renato Corsetti (born 29 March 1941) is an Italian Esperantist who served as President of the Universal Esperanto Association between 2001 and 2007. Born in Rome, Corsetti supports the idea that the people of the world should be able to communic ...

(Italy) *2007–2013:

Probal Dasgupta Probal Dasgupta (born 1953 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian linguist, Esperanto speaker and activist. Dasgupta's interest in linguistics started at a very young age. He published his first article in phonology at the age of eighteen inIndian Li ...

(India) *2013–2019:

Mark Fettes Mark Fettes is an Esperantist and university professor of education, and former President of the World Esperanto Association, known by its Esperanto initials as UEA. Career in Esperantujo Fettes worked from October 1986 until January 1992 in t ...

(Canada) *2019–present:

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(U.S.) {{div col end

External links

''Ĝeneralaj klarigoj pri la strukturo de UEA''
(General explanation of UEA structure), in Esperanto

(UEA by-laws), in Esperanto Esperanto history * Esperanto organizations