The Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP) since its inception in 1962, is serving the Indian society through various professional activities. The Objectives are:

1. To promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of Psychology and to promote the efficiency and usefulness of its members by setting up a high standard of professional education and knowledge.
2. To arrange, provide for, or join in arranging and providing for the holding of conference, regional, national (or international), exhibitions, meetings, lectures, classes and discussions on subjects of general and special interests in Psychology, and also for the exhibition of any new, improved, or other apparatus for Psychological Research
3. To co-operate with academic, professional and other bodies in the advancement of Psychology and other sciences.
4. To prepare, edit, print, publish, issue and circulate gratuitously or otherwise and to sell, lend, issue and distribute gratuitously or otherwise any papers, treatises, books, pamphlets, leaflets or communications made to the academy or documents relating to psychology and any reports of the proceedings and accounts of the academy, and for this purpose to cause translations to be made of any such papers, treatises or communications as shall be in a foreign language and to illustrate any of the publications as the academy may thing expedient in connection with the objects of the academy or any of them.
5. To undertake research projects and publish independent of and/in co-operations with other official and non-official organizations devoted to national development.
6. To obtain, collect and receive money and funds by way of contributions, donations, subscriptions, legacies, grants or any other lawful methods, and (subject to the provision of the said section) to accept and receive gifts of property of any description (whether subject to any special trusts or not) for or towards the objects of the academy or any of them, and to administer such funds and property.
7. To keep a register of members, their qualifications and appointments. Divisions under this academy may be organized to represent major scientific and professional interests that lie within the academy.
8. To do all such other things as may be incidental or conductive to the appointment of the subjects.

IAAP Office Bearer

Advisors:

    Prof. Sultan Akthar, Aligarh

    Prof. K.V. Kaliappan, Chennai

    Prof. G.P. Thakur, New Delhi

President:

    Prof. Habib Ahmad, New Delhi

Vice Presidents:

    i.  Dr. Ravi Gunthey, Jodhpur

    ii. Dr. N.B. Havalappanavar, Dharwad

Regional Presidents:            

    i. Prof. H.C. Suman, Shimla

    ii. Prof. H.N. Gupta, Kolkata

    iii. Dr. Jai Mangal Deo, Patna

Secretary:                             

    Prof. B. Mukhopadhyay, Chennai

Joint Secretary:                    

    Prof. L.R. Yagnik, Vallab Vidhyanagar

Treasurer:

    Dr. R. Rajendran, Chennai

Journal Editor:                     

    Dr. Panch. Ramalingam, Puducherry

News Bulletin Editor:            

    Dr. (Mrs.) S. Renuka Devi, Chennai

Executive Council Members:

    Prof. S. Karunanidhi, Chennai

    Prof. G. VenkateshKumar, Mysore

    Dr. V. Job Kuruvilla, Ernakulam

    Dr. R.V.M. Raju, Viskapatnam

    Dr. Jayanti Basu, Kolkata

    Dr. D. Dutta Roy, Kolkata

    Dr. Sameer Patel, Baroda

    Dr. Novratan Sharma, Rohtak

    Dr. Narke, Aurangabad

    Dr. Sadiqu Razaque, Jharkant

    Dr. R.N. Rai, Shillong

    Dr. Shah Alam, Aligarh

    Dr. Ashok Borse, Dulle

Presidents of IAAP

1962-64      Major S. Parthasarathy

1964-66      Prof. S.P. Adinarayan

1966-67      Prof. T.E.Shanmugam

1968-69      Prof. B.Krishnan

1970-72      Prof. E.I. George

1972-74      Prof. R.Rath

1975-76      Prof. Durganand Sinha

1976-78      Prof. S. Narayana Rao

1979-81      Prof. S.V. Kale

1981-82      Prof. Shib K. Mitra

1983-85      Prof. N.Y. Reddy

1985-87      Prof. Purnima Mathur

1987-89      Prof. K. Ramakrishna Rao

1989-94      Prof. Sultan Akhtar

1995-99      Prof. K.V. Kaliappan

2000-04      Prof. G.P. Thakur

2005-07      Prof. Jitendra Mohan

JIAAP Editors

1964-1969  Major S. Parthasarathy and

                 Prof. C.R. Paramesh

1969-1973  Prof. C.R. Paramesh

1985-1987  Prof. P. Ananthakrishnan

1987-1989  Prof. Purnima Mathur

1989-1990  Prof. P.V. Krishna Rao

1990-2002  Prof. Habib Ahmad

2003-2005  Dr. Akbar Husain

2006-         Dr. Panch. Ramalingam