The Executive Directors Board is appointed by the General Assembly and includes the following members:

Chair, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Greece.

Vice-Chair, Institute for Marine Research, IMR, Norway

Member, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany

Member, National Research Council, CNR, Italy

Member, French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea, Ifremer, France

Member, Puertos del Estado, Spain

Member, Deltares, The Netherlands