| Year | Chair and Co-Chair with affiliation at the time of service to CIAP |
| 2009 | Chair: Bob Carlyon, , MRC
Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge University, UK Co-Chair: Gail Donaldson, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA |
| 2007 | Chair: John Middlebrooks, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Co-Chair: Quentin Summerfield, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK |
| 2005 | Chair: Fan-Gang Zeng,
Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, Irvine,
California, USA Co-Chair: Russell Snyder, Departments of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 2003 |
Chair: Rob Shepherd, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Melbourne, Australia Co-Chair: Mario Svirsky, Department of Otolaryngology School of Medicine , Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| 2001 | Chair: Michael Dorman,
Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona, USA Co-chair: Jay Rubinstein, Departments of Otolaryngology and Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
| 1999 | Chair: Paul Abbas, Departments of Speech Pathology and Audiology and Otolaryngology, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Co-Chair: Arlene Carney, Department of Communication Disorders, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 1997 | Chair: Margaret Skinner, Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Co-Chair: Charles Finley, Center for Auditory Prosthesis Research, Research Triangle Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
| 1995 | Chair: Patricia Leake,
Department of Otolaryngology, University of California San Francisco,
San Francisco, California, USA
Co-Chair: Charles Parkins, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA |
| 1993 | Chair: Chris van den Honert,
School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Co-Chair: Mary Joe Osberger, Department of Otolaryngology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| 1991 | Chair: Blake Wilson,
Neurosciences Program Office, Research Triangle Institute, Durham, North
Carolina, USA Co-Chair: Robert Shannon, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 1989 | Chair: Bryan Pfingst, Kresge
Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA Co-Chair: Sigfrid Soli, Biosciences Research Laboratory, 3M Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 1987 | Chair: Robert Bilger,
Department of Speech and Hearing, University of Illinois, Urbana,
Illinois, USA Co-Chair: Francis Spelman, Center for Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| 1985 | Chair: Donald Eddington, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| 1983 | Chair: Robert White, Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA |