| 1929- 1991 includes Keith Halifax registrar and Peter Bird …… work in progress | 1930-1931 Thomas Mawson |
| 1931-1933 Edward White |
| 1933-1935 Edward Prentice-Mawson |
| 1935-1937 Gilbert Jenkins |
| 1937-1939 Thomas Adams |
| 1939-1949 Geoffrey Jellicoe |
| 1949-1951 Thomas Sharp |
| 1951-1953 Brenda Colvin |
| 1953-1955 James Adams |
| 1955-1957 Richard Sudell |
| 1957-1959 Sylvia Crowe |
| 1959-1961 Frank Clark |
| 1961-1963 Peter Youngman |
| 1963-1965 Leslie Milner-White |
| 1965-1967 Peter Shepheard |
| 1967-1969 Brian Hackett |
| 1969-1971 John St Bodfan Gruffydd |
| 1971 Cliff Tandy |
| 1971-1973 Derek Lovejoy |
| 1973-1975 Cliff Tandy |
| 1975-1977 William Gillespie |
| 1977-1979 Arnold Weddle |
| 1979-1981 Hal Moggridge |
| 1981-1983 Brian Clouston |
| 1983-1985 David Randall |
| 1985-1987 John Whalley |
| 1987-1989 Cedric Lisney |
| Dec 1991 – Mar 1995 Peter Reginald Broadbent secretary | 1989-1991 Andrew Bannister |
| 1991-1993 Hugh Clamp |
| 1993-1995 Michael Ellison |
| Mar 1995 – Jun 2001 Stuart Royston Director General | 1995-1997 Alan Tate |
| 1997-1999 Richard Burden |
| 1999-2000 Tim Gale |
| June 2001 - Sep 2001 Geoffrey Collens interim Director | 2000-2002 David Jarvis |
| Sep 2001 – Aug 2004 Mike Wetherell - Director | 2002-2004 Rod Edwards |
| Aug 2004 - Aug 2005 Chrstine Jackson – interim director | 2004-2006 Kathryn Moore |
| Aug 2005 - april 2008 Marion Bowman – director general | 2006-2008 Nigel Thorne |
| April 2008 – Sep 2008 ?? interim staff member director | 2008-2010 Neil Williamson |
| sep 2008 - oct 2013 Alastair McCapra – director general | 2010-2012 Jo Watkins |
| Oct 2013 - Nov 2013 Phil Mulligan – interim chief executive officer | 2012-2014 Sue Illman |
| Nov 2013 - ? 2016 Phil Mulligan - chief executive officer | 2014-2016 Noel Farrer |
| Sep 2016 – Apr 2021 Dan Cook - chief executive officer | 2016-2018 Merrick Denton-Thompson |
| 2018-2020 Adam White |
| April 2021- July 2021 Jane Swift - interim chief executive officer | 2020-2022 Jane Findlay |
| July 2021 – June 2023 Sue Morgan - chief executive officer | |
| June 2023 – Dec 2023 Robert Hughes - interim chief executive officer | |
| Dec 2023 - Robert Hughes chief executive officer | |
