The European Society for Aesthetics was founded in 2008 at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where it has been based ever since.
The ESA executive committee has been elected six times by the members of the ESA during the ESA Assembly meetings: in 2009 in Fribourg (Presidency and Committee), in 2012 in Guimarães/Braga (Committee), in 2015 in Dublin (Presidency and Committee), in 2018 in Maribor (Committee), in 2022 in Tallinn (Presidency and Committee), in 2024 in Naples (Committee), in 2025 in Athens (Presidency and Committee).
| Name | Affiliation | ESA committee member | Offices |
| João Lemos | Torino, Italia / Lisboa, Portugal | 2025- | Secretary (2025 – ) |
| Julia Langkau | Genève, Switzerland | 2025- | Editor of the Proceedings (2025 – ) |
| Christopher Early | Edinburgh, Scotland | 2025- | Editor of the Proceedings (2025 – ) |
| Ancuta Mortu | București, România | 2025- | Newsletter (2025 – ) |
| Michalle Gal | Shenkar, Israel | 2025- | Newsletter (2025 – ) |
| Uku Tooming | Tartu, Estonia | 2025- | |
| Enrico Terrone | Genova, Italia | 2025- | |
| Efi Kyprianidou | Limassol, Cyprus | 2024- | Conference organiser (2024 – ) |
| Christopher Earley | Liverpool, UK | 2024- | Editor of the Proceedings (2024 –) |
| María José Alcaraz León | Murcia, Spain | 2022- | Treasurer (2023 – ) |
| Jochen Schuff | Berlin, Germany | 2022- | Programme chair (2022 – ) |
| Claire Anscomb | Liverpool, UK | 2022 – 2024 | Conference chair (2023 – 2024) |
| Pauline von Bonsdorff | Jyväskylä, Finland | 2018- | President, (2022 – ) |
| Iris Vidmar | Rijeka, Croatia | 2018 – 2025 | Editor of the Proceedings (2018 – 2019), Secretary (2020 – 2023) |
| Tereza Hadravová | Prague, Czechia | 2018 – 2025 | Webmaster and the Newsletter (2020 – 2025) |
| Elena Tavani | Naples, Italy | 2018 – 2025 | |
| Adam Andrzejewski | Warsaw, Poland | 2018 – 2025 | Treasurer (2018 – 2023) |
| Regina-Nino Mion | Tallinn, Estonia | 2018 – 2025 | Conference chair (2020 – 2023), Secretary (2023 – 2025) |
| Vítor Moura | Guimarães, Portugal | 2018 – 2025 | Editor of the Proceedings (2020 – 2025) |
| Connell Vaughan | Dublin, Ireland | 2017- 2024 | Editor of the Proceedings (2017 – 2023) |
| Daniel Martin Feige | Berlin, Germany | 2015 – 2022 | Programme chair (2018– 2022) |
| Karen Simecek | Warwick, UK | 2015 – 2022 | Conference chair (2018 – 2019), Secretary (2018 – 2020) |
| Alessandro Bertinetto | Udine, Italy | 2012 – 2018 | Editor of the Proceedings (2010), Programme chair (2012-2018) |
| Matilde Carrasco Barranco | Murcia, Spain | 2012 – 2018 | Conference chair (2012 – 2018) |
| Zsolt Bátori | Budapest, Hungary | 2012 – 2018 | |
| Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié | Paris, France | 2012 – 2018 | |
| Kalle Puolakka | Helsinki, Finland | 2012 – 2018 | Secretary (2013 – 2018) |
| Dan-Eugen Ratiu | Cluj, Romania | 2012 – 2018 | Editor of the Proceedings (2012 – 2017) |
| John Zeimbekis | Grenoble, France; Patras, Greece |
2012 – 2018 | Editor of the Proceedings (2011), Treasurer (2012 – 2018) |
| Josef Früchtl | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2012 – 2017 | |
| Jakub Stejskal | Prague, Czechia | 2009 – 2015 | Editor of the Proceedings (2011) |
| Fabian Dorsch | Fribourg, Switzerland | 2009 – 2015 | Secretary (2009 – 2013), Editor of the Proceedings (2009 – 2016) |
| Catrin Misselhorn | Tübingen, Germany | 2009 – 2015 | |
| Francisca Pérez Carreño | Murcia, Spain | 2009 – 2022 | President (2015 – 2022) |
| Robert Hopkins | Sheffield, UK | 2009 – 2015 | President (2009 – 2015) |
| Arto Haapala | Helsinki, Finland | 2009 – 2012 | |
| Simo Säätelä | Bergen, Norway | 2009 – 2012 | |
| Cain Todd | Lancaster, UK | 2009 – 2012 | Editor of the Proceedings (2010) |
