ESPN offers honorary membership for up to two distinguished senior members each year. It is normally expected that these individuals will have retired from clinical practice. They should have made significant contributions to paediatric kidney care at local, national and international level and also have made
significant contributions to the work of ESPN.
Honorary membership entitles the holder to lifetime free society membership. In their year of election, the new honorary members will be offered free registration for the annual ESPN congress.
| Year | Name | Country |
| 2024 | Kjell Tullus Rezan Topaloglu |
UK Turkiye |
| 2023 | Johan Vande Walle | Belgium |
| 2022 | Fernando Santos Peter Hoyer |
Spain Germany |
| 2021 | Lesley Rees Ayfer Guer Guven Alberto Edefonti |
UK Turkey Italy |
| 2020 | Jane Tizard Rosanna Coppo |
UK Italy |
| 2019 | Jean–Claude Davin Patrick Niaudet |
The Netherlands France |
| 2018 | Alan Watson Jochen Ehrich Matthias Brandis |
UK Germany Germany |
| 2017 | Patrick Niaudet Jean–Claude Davin |
France The Netherlands |
| 2016 | Mercedes Navarro Kate Verrier-Jones |
Germany UK |
| 2015 | Jochen Ehrich Alan Watson |
Germany UK |
| 2014 | Matthias Brandis Raymond Donckerwolke |
Germany The Netherlands |
| 2013 | Christer Holmberg Aysin Bakkaloglu |
Finland Turkey |
| 2012 | None | |
| 2011 | Chantal Loirat Jan Janda |
France Czech Republic |
| 2010 | Otto Mehls Ulla Berg |
Germany Sweden |
| 2009 | Willem Proesmans Fernando Coelho-Rosa |
Belgium Portugal |
| 2008 | Endre Sulyok | Hungary |
| 2007 | Marie-Claire Gubler Ira Greifer |
France USA |
| 2006 | Michael Dillon Maya Ignatova Jean-Pierre Guignard |
UK Russia Switzerland |
| 2005 | None | |
| 2004 | Juan Rodriguez Soriano | Spain |
| 2003 | Leo Monnens | Netherlands |
| 2002 | Anita Aperia | Sweden |
| 2001 | Renée Habib Cyril Chantler |
France UK |
| 2000 | Michel Broyer Ernst Leumann Karel van Acker Maria Sieniawska |
France Switzerland Belgium Poland |
| 1999 | Rosanna Gusmano Theresa Wyscinsca Roy Meadow |
Italy Poland UK |
| 1998 | Johannes Brodehl Alfred Drukker |
Germany Israel |
| 1997 | Martin Barratt Hayim Boichis |
UK Israel |
| 1996 | Stewart Cameron | UK |
| 1995 | Karl Scharer | Germany |
| 1994 | None | |
| 1993 | None | |
| 1992 | None | |
| 1991 | Richard White | UK |
| !990 | None | |
| 1989 | None | |
| 1988 | None | |
| 1987 | Ira Greifer | USA |
| 1986 | Pierre Royer | France |