• Janine Ubink (President), Leiden University
• Helen Dancer (Executive Secretary), University of Sussex
  
  
• Waheeda Amien, University of Cape Town
• Bertram Turner, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
• Larissa Vetters, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
• Markus Weilenmann, Office for Conflict Research in Developing Countries

Executive Body ex-officio members

• Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (Past President), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  
• Anne Griffiths (Past President), University of Edinburgh
  
• Dik Roth (on behalf of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis), Wageningen University
  
• Melanie Wiber (on behalf of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis), University of New Brunswick