The Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Society (APES) came into being during the First APES Symposium held at the City University of Hong Kong, in January 1997. At the Inaugural APES Meeting the sixty-two researchers from the Asia-Pacific region elected the Provisional Council with C. Rudowicz as President, together with Representatives from Australia/New Zealand, Japan, China, India, Russia, Republic of Korea, and Vietnam.

As Founder President of the Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Society, Prof. Czeslaw Rudowicz has made significant contributions to founding and fostering APES, as well initiating the Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium Series.

The idea of founding such a regional EPR/ESR Society and organizing Symposia was aimed at satisfying the needs of researchers from the Asia-Pacific region. It has not only facilitated collaboration and scientific exchange, but also provided an opportunity for meeting of researchers employing various EMR spectroscopy techniques in different fields, from physics and chemistry to materials and life sciences, both experimentalists and theorists.

In March 1999, APES became an Affiliate Society of the International EPR/ESR Society (IES), thanks to the effort of Prof. Hitoshi Ohta, former APES President and former IES President.

Within the past 25 years, the Society witnessed a rapid grownup from youth to maturity. A series of symposia have been hold. These successful symposia left abundant heritage to the contemporaries and descendants.

Successive Councils since 1997