Presidents
Under the direction of the ICSD Secretariat, the voluntary but highly respectful role of an ICSD President is to act as a spokesperson for the Deaflympics and World Deaf Championships events and to preside ICSD Congresses. That is just to name a few responsibilities of the leadership position.
Below are the names of the ICSD/CISS Presidents, years in the role, and quick background facts:
 | Eugene Rubens-Alcais Founder and first President (1924-1953), an auto mechanic by profession, came to be known as the deaf version of Baron de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics. |
 | Oscar Ryden Second President (1953-1955), a Swedish joiner and woodcarver, sculptor, editor and lecturer. |
 | Jens Peter Nielsen Third President (1955-1961), a Danish carpenter and lifelong organizer and leader of deaf sports. |
 | Pierre Bernhard Fourth President (1961-1971), a French carpenter, wood sculptor, coffin maker, World War II resistance fighter and author. |
 | Jerald M. Jordan Fifth President (1971-1995), an American printer, teacher, Director of Admissions and Records at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, and the first CISS President to receive the Olympic Order from the IOC, in 1995. |
 | John M. Lovett Sixth President (1995-2003), an Australian government administrator who put Australia on the world map of deaf sports. |
 | Donalda Kay Ammons Seventh President (2003-2009), an American educator and professor at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, who was appointed acting president upon the untimely death of John M. Lovett. At the 2005 Congress she was officially elected to the president position. |
 | Craig Andrew Crowley Eighth President (2009-2013), A British Chief Executive Officer with senior and executive management experience in voluntary organisations. Craig was previously a sports coach and a Deaflympian. He was also the founding President (Chair) of UK Deaf Sport. |
 | Valery Nikitich Rukhledev Ninth President (2013-2018), a six-time Deaflympics Champion in Wrestling, one of the ten top ICSD/Deaflympics Athlete of the Century Award recipients, prominent public and political figure on the national and international levels, and long-time deaf sports Executive in his country. |
 | Rebecca Adam ICSD President (2018-2019), appointed President upon the early retirement of Dr. Valery Rukhledev. |
 | Kang Chen Tenth ICSD President (2019-2020), one of the figures in Deaf Sports Movement in Chinese Taipei and the 2009 Taipei Summer Deaflympics Organizing Committee. He is officially elected ICSD Vice President-World Sports during 2013 - 2019. |
 | Gustavo de Araujo Perazzolo Eleventh ICSD President (2021-2022), one of the figures in Deaf Sports Movement in Brazil and PANAMDES. He is officially elected ICSD President during 48th ICSD Extraordinary Congress in Lausanne, Switzerland. Former athlete in Deaflympics (2009 and 2013) and former athlete in World Deaf Handball Championships (2008 and 2014). |