The Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) elects a president to serve a three-year term. It also elects a first vice-president and a second vice-president to serve three-year terms. This is a list of the presidents and vice-presidents of the Assembly of States Parties since the ICC's inception in 2002.
| No. | Start date | End date | President | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 2002 | November 2005 | Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad |  Jordan |
| 2 | November 2005 | November 2008 | Bruno Stagno Ugarte |  Costa Rica |
| 3 | November 2008 | December 2011 | Christian Wenaweser |  Liechtenstein |
| 4 | December 2011 | December 2014 | Tiina Intelmann |  Estonia |
| 5 | December 2014 | December 2017 | Sidiki Kaba |  Senegal |
| 6 | December 2017 | February 2021 | O-Gon Kwon |  South Korea |
| 7 | February 2021 | incumbent | Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi |  Argentina |
| No. | Start date | End date | First Vice-President | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | November 2005 | November 2008 | Erwin Kubesch |  Austria |
| 3 | November 2008 | December 2011 | Jorge Lomonaco |  Mexico |
| 4 | December 2011 | December 2014 | Markus Börlin [1] |  Switzerland |
| 5 | December 2017 | March 2018 | Momar Diop | Senegal |
| 6 | December 2018 | February 2021 | Jens-Otto Horslund |  Denmark |
| 7 | February 2021 | incumbent | Kateřina Sequensová |  Czech Republic |
| No. | Start date | End date | First Vice-President | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 2002 | November 2005 | Felipe Paolillo |  Uruguay |
| 1 | November 2002 | November 2005 | Allieu Ibrahim Kanu |  Sierra Leone |
| 2 | November 2005 | November 2008 | Hlengiwe Mkhize |  South Africa |
| 3 | November 2008 | December 2011 | Zachary D. Maburi-Muita |  Kenya |
| 4 | December 2011 | December 2014 | Ken Kanda [1] |  Ghana |
| 5 | December 2014 | December 2017 | Sebastiano Cardi |  Italy |
| 6 | December 2017 | February 2021 | Michal Mlynár |  Slovakia |
| 7 | February 2021 | incumbent | Robert Keith Rae |  Canada |
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