The Game Theory Society was founded in 1999 with the following charter members.
- Dilip Abreu
- Beth Allen
- Robert Anderson
- Kenneth J. Arrow*
- Robert J. Aumann
- David Austen-Smith
- Michael Bacharach *
- Jeffrey S. Banks *
- Salvador Barbera
- David Baron
- Tamer Basar
- Pierpaolo Battigalli
- B. Douglas Bernheim
- Cristina Bicchieri
- Ken Binmore
- David Blackwell *
- Lawrence E. Blume
- Immanuel M. Bomze
- Robert Boyd
- Steven J. Brams
- Adam M. Brandenburger
- V. V. Chari
- Youngsub Chun
- John Conway
- Vincent P. Crawford
- Robyn M. Dawes
- Claude d’Aspremont
- Gerard Debreu *
- Eddie Dekel
- Gabrielle Demange
- Jacques Dreze *
- Pradeep Dubey
- Bhaskar Dutta
- Jon Elster
- Ronald Fagin
- John Ferejohn
- Françoise Forges
- Dean P. Foster
- James W. Friedman *
- Drew Fudenberg
- Jean J. Gabszewicz
- David Gale *
- Douglas Gale
- John Geanakoplos
- Itzhak Gilboa
- Daniel Granot
- Avner Greif
- Birgit Grodal *
- Werner Güth
- Joseph Y. Halpern
- Peter Hammond
- John C. Harsanyi *
- Sergiu Hart
- Carmen Herrero
- Werner Hildenbrand
- John Hillas
- Josef Hofbauer
- Charles A. Holt
- Leo Hurwicz *
- Tatsuro Ichiishi
- Matthew O. Jackson
- James P. Kahan
- Ehud Kalai
- Morton Kamien
- Michihiro Kandori
- Mamoru Kaneko
- Yakar Kannai
- Hans Keiding
- Elon Kohlberg
- Daphne Koller
- David M. Kreps
- Vijay Krishna
- Harold W. Kuhn *
- Mordecai Kurz
- Jean-Jacques Laffont *
- John O. Ledyard
- Ehud Lehrer
- Terje Lensberg
- David K. Levine
- Nathan Linial
- Barton L.Lipman
- Deming Liu
- William F. Lucas *
- George J. Mailath
- Andreu Mas-Colell
- Michael Maschler *
- Eric Maskin
- Steven A. Matthews
- John Maynard Smith *
- Richard D. McKelvey *
- Nimrod Megiddo
- Jean-François Mertens *
- Paul R. Milgrom
- Dov Monderer
- Yoram Moses
- Hervé Moulin
- Shigeo Muto
- Roger B. Myerson
- John F. Nash, Jr. *
- Abraham Neyman
- Barry O’Neill
- Akira Okada
- Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara
- Martin J. Osborne
- Guillermo Owen
- Thomas R. Palfrey
- Christos H. Papadimitriou
- T. Parthasarathy*
- Fioravante Patrone
- Bezalel Peleg
- Motty Perry
- Hans Peters
- Leon A. Petrosjan
- Charles R. Plott
- Robert H. Porter
- Andrew Postlewaite
- Jos A.M. Potters
- T.E.S. Raghavan
- Howard Raiffa *
- Amnon Rapoport
- Anatol Rapoport*
- Stanley Reiter
- Philip J. Reny
- John Roberts
- Joachim Rosenmüller
- Robert W. Rosenthal *
- Alvin E. Roth
- Ariel Rubinstein
- Donald G. Saari
- Dov Samet
- Larry Samuelson
- Thomas J. Sargent
- Mark Satterthwaite
- Herbert Scarf *
- Thomas Schelling *
- David Schmeidler
- Andrew Schotter
- Reinhard Selten *
- Roberto Serrano
- Murat R. Sertel *
- Lloyd S. Shapley *
- Kenneth A. Shepsle
- Benyamin Shitovitz
- Yoav Shoham
- Martin Shubik *
- Karl Sigmund
- Brian Skyrms
- Vernon L. Smith
- Joel Sobel
- Hugo Sonnenschein
- Sylvain Sorin
- Marilda Sotomayor
- Yves Sprumont
- Robert Stalnaker
- Richard E. Stearns
- Nancy L. Stokey
- Philip Straffin
- Yair Tauman
- William Thomson
- Stef H. Tijs*
- Jean Tirole
- Eric van Damme
- John B. Van Huyck *
- Karl Vind *
- Rajiv Vohra
- Rakesh V. Vohra
- Bernhard von Stengel
- Robert J. Weber
- Jörgen W. Weibull
- Michael Whinston
- Charles A. Wilson
- Robert B. Wilson
- Asher Wolinsky
- Myrna Holtz Wooders
- Elena Yanovskaya
- Shuntian Yao
- H. Peyton Young
- William R. Zame
- Shmuel Zamir
- José M. Zarzuelo
- Eitan Zemel
* Deceased, as marked in the historical record.